Ex Friend of a Scholar and Gillet Collections

Triton XX, Lot: 71. Estimate $10000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron I. 478-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 17.23 g, 8h). Struck circa 475-470 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath held in both hands / Head of Arethousa right, wearing pearl tainia, hoop earring with a single pendant, and pearl necklace; four dolphins and ΣV-RAKO-ΣIO-N (retrograde) around. Boehringer Series XIId, 353 (O175/R246); HGC 2, 1307; SNG ANS 113 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 1934 (same dies); Gillet 553 (this coin); Hunterian 8 (same dies); McClean 2616 (same rev. die). EF, toned, light cleaning marks under tone.

From the Dr. Patrick H. C. Tan Collection. Ex Friend of a Scholar Collection (Classical Numismatic Review XL.2, Summer 2015), no. 405837; Münzen und Medaillen AG 68 (15 April 1986), lot 147; Charles Gillet Collection, 553.