444, Lot: 12. Estimate $750. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 420-415 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 17.70 g, 7h). Charioteer driving slow quadriga left; [above, Nike flying left, crowning horses]; in exergue, lizard left, about to catch fly / Forepart of man-headed bull left within incuse circle. Jenkins, Gela, Group VIII, 469 (O91/R181); HGC 2, 355. VF, toned, compact flan, struck from worn obverse die. Rare with both types left.

From the Richard Sharf Collection, purchased from Fred Shore, December 1991.