CNG 100, Lot: 1284. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.18 g, 5h). Unsigned dies in the style of Sosion and Eumenos. Struck circa 413-405 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with open wreath held in both hands; below, crane standing left; in exergue, fish and dolphin swimming left / Head of Arethousa left, hair wrapped in thin band, wearing earring and necklace; ΣYPAKOΣION to left, four dolphins swimming clockwise around. Tudeer 17 (V7/R11); HGC 2, 1327; SNG ANS 255; SNG Lloyd 1366; de Luynes 1189; J. Hirsch XXXII (Virzi), lot 302 (all from the same dies). VF, lightly toned. Well struck.

From the R.H. Collection. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 56 (7 October 1991), lot 107.