CNG 99, Lot: 34. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.07 g, 10h). Struck circa 450 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 XV, 534 (V273/R375); HGC 2, 1311; SNG ANS 171 (same obv. die); BMC 90 (same dies). Good VF, toned, die rust on obverse, area of roughness on reverse.

Ex Jacob Stein Collection (Gemini V, 6 January 2009), lot 35; Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 416; Paul Tinchant Collection [“Richard J. Graham”] (Schulman 243, 8 June 1966), lot 1092.