Ancient Coins

Sicily, Sicily, Himera, Tetradrachm, c. 450-420, charioteer driving quadriga right, holding kentron and reins, Nike flying left above, crowning charioteer, rev. Himera, standing front, head turned left, holding patera over altar, left hand raised, satyr bathing in fountain beneath lion-headed spout at right, barley-grain in upper left field, 16.91g/7h (Arnold-Biucchi, La Monetazione D'Argento Di Himera, QT 17 [1988], 17; Gutmann & Schwabacher 14; SNG ANS 165, same dies). Fine to very fine (£300-350)

Provenance:
Galerie de Monnaies Auction (Geneva), 9 November 1978, lot 15
Morton & Eden Auction 10, 23-4 November 2004, lot 532