Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 339. Estimate $2000. Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004. Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.41 gm). Struck under Gelon or Hieron I, circa 478-475 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right, holding kentron and reins; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Head of Arethusa right, surrounded by four dolphins. Boehringer Series VIIa, - (V-/R73; unrecorded obverse die); cf. SNG ANS 28; Randazzo 263 (same reverse die). EF, toned, light smoothing. ($2000)
From the Ronald Cohen Collection.