Triton XVI, Lot: 208. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.65 g, 11h). Charioteer, holding kentron in left hand and reins in both, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath held in both hands; palmette with tendrils in exergue / Forepart of man-headed bull left; CEΛAΣ above. Jenkins, Gela, group IV, 363 (O71/R146); SNG ANS –; SNG Lloyd –; BMC 40 (same dies); Hunterian 16 (same dies); Jameson 584 (same dies). VF, toned, struck from worn obverse die. Rare.

Ex Triton VII (13 January 2004), lot 45.