Sammlung Ludwig Specimen

807017.

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SICILY, Gela. Circa 415-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.97 g, 6h). Charioteer driving quadriga left, holding reins with both hands and kentron in right hand; above, eagle flying left; grain-ear in exergue / Forepart of man-headed bull right; grain-ear above. Jenkins, Gela (O97/R193), 484 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XIX, 1 (same dies); Basel 290 (this coin); SNG ANS 100; SNG Copenhagen 278. Good VF, toned. Rare struck this well and centered.

Ex Sammlung Ludwig (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 290.