Ex Virzi Collection – Boehringer Plate Coin

CNG 100, Lot: 1282. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.27 g, 2h). 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; ΣVRAKOΣI-O-N and four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XV, 519.2 (V271/R369 – this coin, illustrated); HGC 2, 1311; SNG ANS 167; Dewing 801; McClean 2661 (all from the same dies). EF, toned.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 66 (22 October 1984), lot 33; Naville IV (17 June 1922), lot 321; Tom Virzi Collection (J. Hirsch XXXII, 14 November 1912), lot 185.