375, Lot: 151. Estimate $300. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 425-420 BC. AR Didrachm (21mm, 7.80 g, 2h). Warrior on horseback right, spearing fallen hoplite below / Horned head of Gelas left, wearing tainia, within laurel wreath. Jenkins, Gela, Group VII, 463 (O88/R176); HGC 2, 365. Good Fine, toned, smoothed, a few scratches. Very rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Brian M. Jamieson Collection (Noble 86, 21 November 2007), lot 3268; Astarte 5 (28 October 1999), lot 262.