Pedigreed Early Syracuse Tetradrachm
From the Mirsky and Lockett Collections

CNG 94, Lot: 100. Estimate $30000. Sold for $32500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. The Gamoroi. Circa 500-490/86 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.17 g, 12h). Charioteer, holding reins in both hands, driving slow quadriga right; SVRA(koppa)/SION in two lines above / Head of Arethusa left in incuse circle in center of quadripartite incuse square. Boehringer Series I, 11.3 (V8/R7) = SNG Lockett 867 (this coin); HGC 2, 1301 (this coin illustrated); SNG ANS 2; McClean 2593; Weber 1549 (all from the same dies). Good VF, attractive old collection toning. Rare.

From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Ex Rockefeller University/Dr. Alfred E. Mirsky Collection (Gemini VII, 9 January 2011), lot 149; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Glendining's, 25 October 1955), lot 764; Naville X (15 June 1925), lot 256.