CNG 100, Lot: 1291. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 16.93 g, 12h). Struck circa 317-310 BC. Head of Arethousa left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; three dolphins around, NK below neck / Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; counterclockwise triskeles above, ΣYPAKOΣIΩN and monogram in exergue. Ierardi 44 (O8/R25); BAR Issue 2; HGC 2, 1348; SNG Ashmolean 2065 (same obv. die); SNG Delepierre 700–1 (same obv. die); Walcher von Molthein 586 (same obv. die); Weber 1668 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, edge split on obverse. Well centered.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, September 1980.