CNG 112, Lot: 73. Estimate $7500. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Katane. Circa 461-450 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.18 g, 9h). River god Amenanos, in the form of a man-headed bull, crouching right; laurel branch above; below, fish right / Nike advancing left, holding tainia in extended right hand; KAT-ANE running along left edge. Mirone 13 (same obv. die as illustration); HGC 2, 559 (same dies as illustration); SNG ANS 1235 (same dies); SNG Lloyd –; Basel –; Dewing –; Gulbenkian 175; Hunt II 225 (same obv. die); Jameson 1891 (same dies); Kraay & Hirmer 29; Randazzo 48–53 (same dies); Rizzo pl. IX, 3 (same dies). Toned, some die wear and porosity. Good VF. Very rare, fewer than 20 specimens known with the branch on the obverse.

Ex Peus 392 (2 May 2007), lot 4082 (hammer €9500); Gemini I (11 January 2005), lot 22; Berk CICF Sale (23 March 1995), lot 13.