Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 153. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.37 g, 5h). Struck under Hieron I, circa 478-475 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Diademed head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer series IXa, 198 (V88/R137); SNG ANS 63 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, minor die wear.

Ex Stack’s (7 March 2006), lot 586.

Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot.