Ex Peyrefitte Collection

CNG 106, Lot: 36. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Himera. Circa 440-430/25 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 17.24 g, 1h). The nymph Himera, holding kentron and reins, driving slow quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning her with open wreath; in exergue, cock standing left within [I]MEP-AION / Himera standing facing, head left, holding patera over altar to left; to upper right, barley grain; to lower right, satyr bathing in fountain with lion-headed spout. Arnold-Biucchi, Monetazione, Group III, 15 (Q4/H12); Gutmann & Schwabacher 10; HGC 2, –; Boston MFA 254 (same dies); de Luynes 976 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXI, 12 (same dies). Good VF, toned, a hint of porosity, slight die shift, light scratches at edge on obverse, details recut in the reverse design. SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Very rare.

Ex Friend of a Scholar Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 100, 7 October 2015), lot 1268; Roger Peyrefitte Collection (Vinchon, 29 April 1974), lot 19; Hess-Leu (16 April 1957), lot 80.