CNG 100, Lot: 1287. Estimate $3000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.13 g, 6h). Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer with wreath held in both hands; in exergue, grain ear left / Head of Arethousa left, hair in sphendone, wearing large hoop earring and necklace with small pendant; ΣYPAKOΣI-Ω-N and four dolphins swimming around. Tudeer 82 (V30/R55); HGC 2, 1342; SNG ANS 290; BMC 217–8; Dewing 849; de Luynes 1218; McClean 2718; J. Hirsch XXXII (Virzi), lot 339 (all from the same dies). VF, toned, a few minor pits and marks. Fine style.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, November 1984.