Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 81. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.26 g, 6h). Reverse die signed by Parmenides. Struck circa 415-405 BC. Charioteer driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; [grain ear in exergue] / Diademed head of Arethusa left; four dolphins around, PAR[ME] below neck. Tudeer 77 (V27/R49); SNG ANS 287 (same dies); BMC 212-213 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XLVII, 21. VF, surfaces heavily corroded. Very rare.

Ex Astarte XVII (8 May 2005), lot 105.