Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 360. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $3600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.31 gm). Struck circa 405-395 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga left, holding kentron and reins; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; in exergue, dolphin swimming left / Head of Arethusa left, large band in hair from under which hair flows upward and backward in flame-like locks (depicting her submerged underwater), surrounded by four dolphins. Tudeer 99a (V34/R68 - this coin used to illustrate the reverse die) = Boston MFA 443 (this coin); cf. Boehringer, Dionysios, pl. 38, 3; SNG ANS 299 (same obverse die). Good VF, attractively toned. ($2000)

From the Tony Hardy Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts VIII (6 June 1980), lot 43; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 443; Warren Collection.