Two Superb Mai- Tetradrachms

Triton XX, Lot: 50. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Himera. Circa 409-407 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 17.50 g, 6h). Obverse die signed by the artist Mai-. The nymph Himera, holding reins in both hands, driving unruly quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning her with wreath held in extended right hand, left hand holding plaque inscribed MAI; in exergue, ketos left / Himera standing facing, head left, holding in right hand a patera over altar to left; to right, satyr bathing in fountain with lion-headed spout; HI-[ME-PAI]O[N] (retrograde) counterclockwise around from exergue. Arnold-Biucci, Monetazione, Group IV, 22 (Q8/H17); Gutmann & Schwabacher 20; HGC 2, 436; SNG Lloyd 1022 (same dies); Basel 306 (same dies); Gillet 434 (same dies); Kraay & Hirmer 71 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXI, 23 = de Luynes 977 (same dies). Superb EF, fully lusterous. Wonderful strike from fresh dies.

From the JMG Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 107; Peus 376 (29 October 2003), lot 164.