445, Lot: 836. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Katane. Circa 450-445 BC. Electrotype “Tetradrachm” (25mm, 14.09 g, 9h). British Museum electrotype by Robert Ready or his sons (marked R on edge). Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving slow quadriga right / Laureate head of Apollo right. Head, Guide, Period II.C. –; for prototype: BMC, p. 43, 17. As made, toned.

From the Johnson Family Collection, purchased from William Koonce, 2 May 1969.