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CNG 112, Lot: 91. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 17.37 g, 12h). Struck circa 420-415 BC. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer / Head of Arethousa right, wearing sphendone; four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XXIV, 721-2 var. (V355/R- [unpublished rev. die]); HGC 2, 1323; SNG ANS 243-4 (same obv. die). Lightly toned, typical compact flan, a couple minor die breaks on reverse. Good VF.


Ex Classical Numismatic Group 82 (16 September 2009), lot 299; Collection C.G. (Classical Numismatic Group 76.1, 12 September 2007), lot 156; Classical Numismatic Group 40 (with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1996), lot 863.