Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 218. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $2640. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.00 g, 2h). Struck under Hieron I, circa 478-475 BC. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Diademed head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer 162 (V72/R107); SNG ANS 47; Pozzi 563; McClean 2605 (all from the same dies). Good VF, slight surface roughness.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica P (12 May 2005), lot 1383.