294, Lot: 100. Estimate $500. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 17.20 g, 9h). Struck circa 430-420 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Head of Arethusa right, hair in bands; four dolphins around. Boehringer series XXII, 675 (V338/R462); SNG ANS 220–4 (same obv. die); BMC 120 (same dies). VF, toned, typical compact flan, a little die wear on obverse.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 1160.