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375, Lot: 186. Estimate $300.
Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron I. 478-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 17.06 g, 4h). Struck circa 478-475 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Diademed head of Arethousa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer Series IXa, 192 (V87/R131); HGC 2, 1306. Near VF, toned, trace deposits, flan flaw on obverse.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Barry Murphy, 16 January 2004 (Inv. no. 12299).