294, Lot: 57. Estimate $300. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 445-439 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 3.97 g, 11h). Charioteer driving biga of mules right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses; olive leaf and berry in exergue / Hare springing right within wreath. Caltabiano Series IX, 387 (D175/R169); SNG ANS 347; SNG Copenhagen 409; BMC 32; Hunterian 9; Pozzi 486 (all from the same dies). VF, toned, minor porosity, a couple shallow cuts on obverse.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 1047.

Caltabiano 387.6 erroneously lists the BM and Pozzi pieces as the same coin.