CNG 84, Lot: 120. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.27 g, 2h). Struck under Hieron I, circa 475-470 BC. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath / Diademed head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XIIb, 313 (V151/R219); SNG ANS 101 (same dies); Dewing 763 (same dies). EF, lightly toned. Well centered and struck.

From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection. Ex Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 699.