Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 341. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $1510. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.73 gm). Struck under Gelon or Hieron I, circa 478-475 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right, holding kentron and reins; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Head of Arethusa right, surrounded by four dolphins. Boehringer Series IXa, 212 (V94/R145); SNG ANS 71 (same obverse die); Randazzo 372-3 (same dies). Good VF, toned, well centered. ($1500)

From the Tony Hardy Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica L (18 May 2001), lot 1209.