Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 161. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1387. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.98 g, 5h). Struck circa 450-440 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses; in exergue, ketos right / Diademed head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer series XVIb, 572 (V287/R392); SNG ANS 184-5 (same obv. die); BMC 95 (same dies). Good VF, a hint of porosity.

Ex Morton & Eden (23 November 2004), lot 538.