294, Lot: 39. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2234. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Himera. Circa 440-430/25 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.79 g, 9h). The nymph Himera driving quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; in exergue, cock left / Himera standing facing, head left, holding patera over altar to left; barley grain to upper right; to right, satyr bathing in fountain with lion-headed spout. Arnold-Biucci, Monetazione 15 (Q4/H12); Gutmann-Schwabacher 10; Rizzo pl. XXI, 12 (same dies); SNG ANS –; SNG Ashmolean 1765 (same dies). Near VF, toned, some roughness.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 1014.