381, Lot: 47. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Gela. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.29 g, 5h). Charioteer driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses; palmette with tendrils in exergue / Forepart of man-headed bull left. Jenkins,
Gela, Group IV, 363 (O71/R146); HGC 2, 343; BMC 40; Hunterian 16; Jameson 584 (all from the same dies). VF, lightly toned, obverse off center and weakly struck.
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.