CNG 100, Lot: 1279. Estimate $3000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron I. 478-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.45 g, 7h). Struck circa 475-470 BC. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath held in both hands / Head of Arethousa right, wearing pearl tainia, single-pendant earring and necklace; ΣVR-AKO-ΣIOИ (R and A inverted) and four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XIId, 346 (V170/R244); HGC 2, 1307; SNG ANS 110–1 (same obv. die) and 112 (same rev. die); BMC 45 (same dies); Dewing 776 (same rev. die); Randazzo 516 (same dies). Good VF, attractively toned, a little die wear on obverse.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, February 1998.