CNG 111, Lot: 62. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Leontini. Circa 476-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.14 g, 8h). Charioteer driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Head of roaring lion right; four barley grains around. Boehringer,
Münzgeschichte 2 (same obv. die); HGC 2, 661; SNG ANS 199 (same obv. die); Dewing 619 (same obv. die). Near EF, toned, die wear on obverse.
From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 177.