Ex Jameson – Boehringer Plate Coin

Triton XVIII, Lot: 381. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 17.34 g, 3h). Struck circa 460-450 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath held in both hands; in exergue, ketos right / Head of Arethousa right, wearing pearl tainia, hoop earring, and pearl necklace; four dolphins and ΣYRAKOΣIO-N around. Boehringer Series XIVa, 483.5 (V257/R346) = Jameson 760 (this coin); HGC 2, 1311; SNG ANS 151; SNG Lloyd 1315; BMC 74; Bement 466; Kraay & Hirmer 83; McClean 2653; Pozzi 575; Rizzo pl. XXXVII, 2 (all from the same dies). Good VF, toned, a couple light marks under tone.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Sotheby’s New York (19 December 1998), lot 19; Robert Jameson Collection, 760.