Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 97. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.21 g, 8h). Struck under Hieron I, circa 478-475 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Diademed head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer series VIIIa, 102 (V42/R56); SNG ANS 27; McClean 2599; Pozzi 551; Randazzo 258-9 (all from the same dies). Good VF, obverse slightly off center.