CNG 87, Lot: 228. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Didrachm (19mm, 8.53 g, 4h). Struck circa 450 BC. Horseman riding right / Head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer series XV, 548 (V277/R380) = Moretti Collection (NAC P, 12 May 2005), 1250 = Rauch (1984), 93; otherwise unpublished. Good VF, lightly toned, die break on obverse and reverse. Extremely rare, the finer of two known.

Ex Berk BBS 132 (14 May 2003), no. 72; Numismatica Ars Classica 2 (21 February 1990), lot 93.