445, Lot: 840. Estimate $100. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. Electrotype “Tetradrachm” (25mm, 15.25 g, 12h). British Museum electrotype by Robert Ready or his sons (marked R on edge). Charioteer driving galloping quadriga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both hands; Nike flying above and crowning charioteer, wheel in exergue; [exergual line signed EYAINETO] / Head of Arethousa left, wearing double looped earring and necklace, hair bound in ampyx, decorated with a swan, and sphendone decorated with two stars; sphendone behind ear signed EVKΛEI. Head, Guide, Period II.C. –; for prototype: BMC, p. 173, 190. As made, toned.

From the Johnson Family Collection, purchased from William Koonce, 2 May 1969.