294, Lot: 96. Estimate $500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.92 g, 9h). Struck circa 430 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Head of Arethusa right, hair in wide band; four dolphins around. Boehringer series XIX, 634.5 (V321/R436 – this coin); SNG ANS 203; Jameson 770; Weber 1587 (all from the same dies). VF, toned, some deposits and roughness on obverse.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Egger XLV (12 November 1913), lot 356.