Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 113. Estimate $5000. Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003. Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.36 gm). Struck circa 440-430 BC. Charioteer driving galloping quadriga left, holding kentron and reins; Nike flying above crowning charioteer, ketos in exergue / Head of Arethusa right, hair drawn up over head into a korymbos; four dolphins swimming clockwise around. Boehringer 604 (V296/R410); SNG ANS 198 (same obverse die); Jameson 775 (same dies). Lightly toned EF, minor mark on neck. ($5000)