Two Artistic Tetradrachms from Katane

294, Lot: 41. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Katane. Circa 450-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.98 g, 5h). Charioteer driving slow quadriga right / Laureate head of Apollo right. Mirone 30–1; Rizzo pl. X, 1/2 (same obv./rev. dies); SNG ANS 1241. VF, toned, light scratches and scuffs under tone on obverse. Well centered and struck for issue.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 960.