448, Lot: 664. Estimate $150. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELECTROTYPES, Sicily. Katane. 19th century Electrotype “Tetradrachm” (25mm, 13.85 g, 8h). Unsigned British Museum electrotype by Robert Ready or his sons. Head of Apollo facing slightly left, wearing laurel wreath; HPAKΛEIΔAΣ to right / Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both, driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer with open laurel wreath held in both hands; Ionic column in right background; in exergue, KATANAIΩN above crawfish right. Head, Guide, Period II.C. 33; for prototype: BMC 31. Toned. As made.

From the Rye Collection.