Ex Trampitsch Collection

CNG 100, Lot: 1281. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.38 g, 1h). Struck circa 450 BC. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath held in both hands; in exergue, ketos right / Head of Arethousa right, hair rolled in thin tainia, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace; ΣVRAKOΣ-I-ON and four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XV, 518 (V271/R366); HGC 2, 1311; SNG ANS 165–8 (same obv. die); SNG München 1016 (same rev. die); Dewing 799–801 (same obv. die); Gillet 364 (same rev. die); J. Hirsch XXXII (Virzi), lot 186 (same dies). EF, attractively toned, slightly off center.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Armand Trampitsch Collection (Vinchon, 13 November 1986), lot 95.