From the Jameson and Smith Collections

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 55. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.36 g, 11h). Struck circa 450-440 BC. Charioteer, holding reins in right hand and kentron in left, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath; in exergue, ketos right / Head of Arethusa right, hair bound in thin bands, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace with ornament; four dolphins and ΣYRAKOΣI-ON around. Boehringer series XVIb, 571.4 (V287/R391) = Jameson 769 (this coin); SNG ANS 184; Pozzi 581; Bement 79 (all from the same dies). EF, attractively toned, typical short flan, small die break on reverse.

Ex R. Jameson Collection; Harlan P. Smith Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 5 June 1905), lot 103.