Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 211. Estimate $1750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Circa 405-395 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.71 gm). Charioteer driving galloping quadriga left, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both hands; Nike flying above and crowning charioteer, dolphin swimming left in exergue / Head of Arethusa left, large band in hair from under which hair flows upward and backward in flame-like locks (depicting her hair floating beneath the water), surrounded by four dolphins swimming. Tudeer 96 (V34/R65); SNG ANS 298 (same obverse die). Darkly toned, nice VF, light porosity. ($1750)

From the William N. Rudman Collection.