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Ex Picard Collection - Referenced by Boehringer

Triton XVI, Lot: 223. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron I. 478-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.18 g, 9h). Struck circa 475-470 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in left, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath held in both hands / Head of Arethusa right, hair in pearl band, wearing pearl necklace; ΣV-RAKO-ΣIO-И and four dolphins around. Boehringer 310E.1 (V150/R206 – this coin); SNG ANS 100; Randazzo 476–7 (same dies); Weber 1561 (same dies). Near EF, gray toning with slight iridescence around the devices.


From the RCM Collection. Ex Leu 91 (10 May 2004), lot 69; Münzen und Medallien AG 37 (5 December 1968), lot 101; G. Picard Collection (Sambon, 14 March 1923), lot 326.