Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 293. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $1350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.44 g, 1h). 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, 188 (V84/R128); SNG ANS 56. Good VF, a little flat on high points.

Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot.