CNG 102, Lot: 155. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.22 g, 3h). Unsigned dies in the style of Eukleidas. Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in both hands; in exergue, dolphin right / Head of Arethousa left, hair in band, wearing double-loop earring and plain necklace with frontal pendant; [Σ-Y-PAK-O-ΣI-ΩN above hair], four dolphins around. Tudeer 104 (dies 35/71); HGC 2, 1345; SNG ANS 300; BMC 197; Boston MFA 444; Jameson 809; de Luynes 1208; Rizzo pl. XXXXVIII, 16 (all from the same dies). Near EF, attractive cabinet tone, reverse a touch off center.

From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 190 (11 October 2010), lot 67; Gorny & Mosch 112 (17 October 2001), lot 4036; Peter M. Suter Collection (Münzen und Medaillen AG 89, 14 June 2000), lot 83; Münzen und Medaillen AG 66 (22 October 1984), lot 43.