294, Lot: 36. Estimate $1000. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.27 g, 7h). Charioteer driving slow quadriga right; wreath above / Forepart of man-headed bull right; laurel branch to left; all within shallow incuse circle. Jenkins, Gela, Group VI, 397 (O82/R166); SNG ANS 80 (same obv. die); SNG Ashmolean 1736 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 266 (same dies). VF, toned, usual compact flan, struck from worn dies.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection.