Signed by MAI-

CNG 100, Lot: 1269. Estimate $7500. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Himera. Circa 409-407 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.34 g, 4h). Obverse die signed by the artist Mai-. The nymph Himera, holding reins in both hands, driving unruly quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning her with wreath held in extended right hand, left hand holding plaque inscribed MAI; in exergue, ketos left / Himera standing facing, head left, holding in right hand a patera over altar to left; to right, satyr bathing in fountain with lion-headed spout; [HI-ME around]. Arnold-Biucci, Monetazione, Group IV, 22 (Q8/H17); Gutmann & Schwabacher 20; HGC 2, 436; SNG Lloyd 1022 (same dies); Basel 306 (same dies); Gillet 434 (same dies); Kraay & Hirmer 71 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXI, 23 = de Luynes 977 (same dies). Superb EF, fully lustrous, slight die shift on reverse.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Ceresio I (26 September 1987), lot 35.