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From the Weber Collection

Triton XVI, Lot: 210. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 420-415 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.75 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 / Forepart of man-headed bull right; ΓEΛAΣ above. Jenkins, Gela, group VIII, 468.29 (O90/R180) = Weber 1324 (this coin); SNG ANS 90; SNG Lloyd 971; BMC 50; McClean 2258 (all from the same dies). Good VF, dark cabinet toning, typical weak obverse die. Fine style.


Ex Sir Hermann Weber Collection, 1324.