CNG 102, Lot: 98. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 415-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.23 g, 12h). Nike driving fast quadriga right; above, eagle flying right; [large pellet in exergue] / Forepart of man-headed bull right; barley grain above. Jenkins, Gela, Group IX, 483.33 (O96/R192 – this coin); HGC 2, 358; SNG ANS 99; BMC 72; Jameson 191; SNG Lockett 777; Weber 1332 (all from the same dies). VF, toned, area of weak strike, minor flan flaw at edge on obverse.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 40 (with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1996), lot 742; Athos D. Moretti Collection; J. Hirsch XXXII (14 November 1912), lot 54.