342, Lot: 57. Estimate $750. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron I. 478-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 17.36 g, 7h). Struck circa 475-470 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Diademed head of Arethousa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XIIa, 297 (V143/R205); HGC 2, 1307. VF, wonderful iridescent tone.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from C. H. Wolfe, 27 August 1987.