Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 163. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $3050. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.26 g, 8h). Struck circa 440-430 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; barley grain below horses; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses; [in exergue, ketos right] / Head of Arethusa right, hair in band; four dolphins around. Boehringer series XVIIb, 594 (V291/R396); SNG ANS 192; SNG Lloyd 1336; Boston MFA 381 = Warren 333; Jameson 771 (all from the same dies). VF, double struck on obverse. Wonderful artistic head of Arethusa.