Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 148. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.35 g, 4h). Struck under Gelon, circa 480-478 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Diademed head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer series V, 59 (V31/R38); SNG ANS 14 (same obv. die); SNG Fitzwilliam 1174 (same dies). Good VF, slightly weak strike at high point on reverse. Well centered and struck.