445, Lot: 870. Estimate $75. Sold for $145. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GREAT BRITAIN?. Circa late 19th-20th centuries. Silvered Cast Belt Buckle (35mm, 50.02 g). Design copying an unsigned British Museum electrotype of a Syracusan dekadrachm. Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand and reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with laurel wreath held in her extended hands; below [heavy exergual line inscribed KIMΩN], a shield, greaves, cuirass, and Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear; AΘΛA below / Head of Arethousa left, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace, hair restrained in an ampyx and open-weave sakkos; four swimming dolphins around, the one below neck inscribed KIMΩN. Cf. BMC, p. 176, 201 (for prototype). As made, edge marks, broken joining hook. Unusual.