CNG 112, Lot: 69. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Gela. Circa 480/75-475/70 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 17.14 g, 4h). Charioteer, holding kentron in left hand and reins in right, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath held in both hands / Forepart of bearded man-headed bull (river god) right; retrograde C-E-Λ-AΣ along lower edge; all within shallow incuse circle. Jenkins, Gela, Group II, 104 (O32/R59); HGC 2, 338; SNG Copenhagen 251; Hermitage Sale II 252; de Luynes 940 and 944; Jameson 580 (all from the same dies). Toned, compact flan (typical for issue), peripheral striking flaw on obverse. VF.

From the John L. Cowan Collection, purchased from Pegasi Numismatics, 14 June 2005.