Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 152. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.86 g, 11h). 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 IXa, 197 (V88/R136); SNG ANS 63 (same dies). Near EF, some porosity, minor roughness. Indications of undertype on reverse.

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot.