Ex Cahn and Suter Collections

Triton XIX, Lot: 51. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 17.60 g, 9h). Struck circa 430 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath held in both hands / Head of Arethousa right, hair in sakkos ornamented by a maeander pattern, wearing earring and necklace; ΣYPAKOΣION and four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XX, 642 (V269/R364); HGC 2, 1319; SNG ANS 207; BMC 112; Basel 448; Boston MFA 389; Jameson 783; Pozzi 592; Weber 1591 (all from the same dies). Near EF, toned, some die wear on obverse.

Ex Herbert A. Cahn Collection (Numismatica Genevensis SA VII, 27 November 2012), lot 32; Peter M. Suter Collection (Münzen und Medaillen AG 89, 14 June 2000), lot 72.