Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 209. Estimate $12500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Circa 405-400 BC. Unsigned dies by Kimon. AR Dekadrachm (42.76 gm). Charioteer driving galloping quadriga left, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; Nike flying above and crowning charioteer; below heavy exergual line: a military harness, shield, greaves, cuirass and Attic helmet all connected by a horizontal spear / Head of Arethusa left, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace, hair restrained at back of head in an open weave sakkos; all surrounded by four dolphins swimming. Jongkees, "The Kimonian Decadrachms," 8 (B/h). Lightly toned, good VF, lamination on neck, some light corrosion behind head, moderate obverse and reverse die rust, reverse die breaks. ($12,500)

From the William N. Rudman Collection.