294, Lot: 74. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.30 g, 10h). Artemis, holding reins, driving quadriga left; beside her, Apollo standing left, drawing bow / Selinos standing left, holding branch and phiale over altar to left; before altar, cock standing left; to right, selinon leaf above bull standing left on basis. Schwabacher 7l (Q2/S7 – this coin); SNG ANS 689 (same dies). VF, toned, traces of find patina, slightly irregular flan.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Tom Virzi Collection (J. Hirsch XXXII, 14 November 1912), lot 104.