Ex Hunt, Boston MFA, Warren, and Greenwell Collections

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 275. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $1250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Katane. Circa 412-410 BC. AR Drachm (4.15 g, 12h). Unsigned dies in the style of Euainetos. Charioteer driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer / Head of Amenanos left, wearing tainia; two fish and crayfish around, AMENANOΣ above. Mirone 77-9; SNG ANS 1263; Boston MFA 264 = Warren 217 (this coin). Near VF, toned, light scratch in field on obverse under tone. Rare.

From the J. Olphin Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXIII (13 October 1992), lot 84; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part IV, Sotheby’s, 19 June 1991), lot 527 (part of); Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts VIII, 6 June 1980), lot 18; Edward P. Warren Collection, 217; William Greenwell collection.