445, Lot: 837. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 466-460 BC. Electrotype “Tetradrachm” (28mm, 14.46 g, 3h). 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; above, Nike, flying left, crowning him with fillet; in exergue, lion right / Laureate head of Apollo right; laurel leaves above and to left and right; below, lion right. Head, Guide, Period II.C., 44. As made, toned.

From the Johnson Family Collection, purchased 15 June 1963.