Watch List notes:

SICILY, Gela. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.13 g, 3h). Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in left, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath held in both hands; palmette with long tendrils in exergue / Forepart of man-headed bull right; CEΛAΣ above. Jenkins, Gela, Group IV, 344 (O66/R134); HGC 2, 343; SNG ANS 65; SNG Lloyd 967–8 (same obv. die); SNG Lockett 771 (same obv. die); BMC 36 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian 197; Kraay & Hirmer 158 var. (ethnic). Deep collection toning, some die wear on obverse. Good VF.


From the M.J.W. Collection. Ex Nomos 6 (8 May 2012), lot 14; Viscount Wimbourne Collection [as "Outstanding Collection"] (Leu 81, 16 May 2001), lot 52.