Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 86. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Himera. Circa 410 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.14 gm). Signed by the artist MAI. The nymph Himera driving unruly quadriga right, Nike flying above, holding wreath and plaque inscribed MAI; ketos in exergue / Himera holding patera over altar; to right, satyr bathing in fountain with a lion-headed spout. Gutmann-Schwabacher 20; SNG ANS -; SNG Lloyd 1022 (same dies). Toned, good VF. ($1000)

From the Charles E. Weber Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29-30 May 1997), lot 114; Muñoz Collection, Part 3 (Superior Galleries, June 1981), lot 1521; J. Hewitt Judd Collection (Leu 15, 4-5 May 1976), lot 68 (Judd was the author of the standard reference on U.S. pattern coinage); Hess-Leu 1957, lot 81.