Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 104. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $845. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Himera. Circa 450-420 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.05 gm). Charioteer driving quadriga right, holding kentron and reins; Nike flying left above, crowning charioteer / Himera, standing front, head turned left, holding patera over altar, left hand raised; to right, a satyr bathing in fountain beneath lion-headed spout; barley grain in upper left field. Arnold-Biucchi, "La Monetazione D'Argento Di Himera," QT XVII (1988), Group II, 17 (Q6/H13); Gutmann & Schwabacher 15; SNG ANS 165 (same dies). Near VF, light scratches above altar. ($1000)