Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 160. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.16 g, 10h). Struck circa 450-440 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses; in exergue, ketos right / Diademed head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer series XVIa, 563 (V284/R385E); SNG ANS 182; BMC 97; SNG Ashmolean 1974; Basel 440 = Rizzo pl. XXXVII, 14 (all from the same dies). VF. Struck on a broad flan.