CNG 97, Lot: 40. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.33 g, 6h). Struck circa 466-460 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses; in exergue, ketos right / Diademed head of Arethousa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XIVa, 481 (V256/R345); HGC 2, 1311; SNG ANS 149 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1314 (same obv. die); SNG München 1012 (same dies); BMC 72 (same dies). EF, underlying luster, obverse struck a little softly.
Ex Nomos 6 (8 May 2012), lot 21; W.B. and R.E. Montgomery Collection (Triton XI, 8 January 2008), lot 57.