CNG 112, Lot: 89. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2253. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.15 g, 2h). Struck circa 450 BC. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses; in exergue, ketos right / Head of Arethousa right, wearing thin tainia; four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XV, 540 (V275/R378); HGC 2, 1311; SNG ANS 177; BMC 85; SNG München 1018-9; McClean 2663 (all from the same dies). Toned, some porosity. Good VF.

Ex Triton XIII (5 January 2010), lot 1030; Morton & Eden (25 May 2004), lot 292; Lanz 20 (13 April 1981), lot 107.