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375, Lot: 222. Estimate $500.
Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.28 g, 6h). Dies in the style of Parmenides. Struck circa 413-405 BC. Charioteer driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; grain ear in exergue / Diademed head of Arethousa left; four dolphins around. Tudeer 76 (dies 27/52); HGC 2, 1343 (same dies as illustration). VF, find patina, cleaning scratches, some roughness. Very rare die combination, only one recorded by Tudeer, and only one in CoinArchives.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.