452, Lot: 76. Estimate $750. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Katane. Circa 435-412 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.00 g, 9h). Reverse die “signed” by the "Maestro della foglia". Charioteer driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Laureate head of Apollo right; [laurel leaf and berries to right]. Mirone 51; HGC 2, 569 (same dies as illustration); Rizzo pl. XII, 4 (same dies). Attractively toned, fields heavily smoothed above horses, off center on reverse. VF. Very rare.

From the John L. Cowan Collection, purchased from Pegasi Numismatics, 7 February 2009. Ex Peus 382 (26 April 2005), lot 60; Spink 168 (15 April 2004), lot 99; Dr. W. Schink Collection (Spink Zürich 20, 6 October 1986), lot 76; Spink Numismatic Circular LXXXIV.9 (September 1976), no. 6679 (heavy smoothing not noted in any sales).