CNG 102, Lot: 149. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 17.23 g, 12h). Unsigned dies in the style of Sosion and Eumenos. Struck circa 413-405 BC. Charioteer driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; below, crane standing left; in exergue, fish and dolphin swimming left / Head of Arethousa left, hair wrapped in thin band; four dolphins 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, typical compact flan, minor flan flaw on reverse.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, 20 January 2004. Ex Ponterio 129 (16 January 2004), lot 362.