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354, Lot: 10. Estimate $150.
Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron I. 478-466 BC. Cut AR Tetradrachm (full coin originally 25mm, 1h die axis). 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 XI, 247 var. (V111/R– [unlisted rev. die]); Randazzo 418 (same dies); HGC 2, 1307. Fine, toned, two parts of a tetradrachm that was cut into three parts (one half and two quarters). Very rare instance of separate parts of a cut tetradrachm found together.