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377, Lot: 11. Estimate $150.
Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron I. 478-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.15 g, 1h). Struck circa 475-470 BC. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Diademed head of Arethousa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XI, 248 (V112/R169); Randazzo 419 (same dies); HGC 2, 1307. Fine, toned, rough surfaces with redeposited silver, struck from a worn obverse die.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Christie’s (12 November 1985), lot 25 (part of).