294, Lot: 35. Estimate $750. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 480/75-475/70 BC. AR Tetradrachm (21mm, 17.34 g, 8h). Charioteer driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Forepart of man-headed bull right within shallow incuse circle. Jenkins, Gela, Group IId, 184 (O49/R99); SNG ANS 39 (same rev. die). VF, toned, compact flan, some minor die breaks on reverse. Rare die combination, only one example listed in Jenkins.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 990.