Watch List notes:

SICILY, Himera. Circa 409-407 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 17.49 g, 4h). Obverse die signed by the artist Mai-. The nymph Himera, holding reins in both hands, driving unruly quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning her with wreath held in extended right hand, left hand holding plaque inscribed MAI; in exergue, ketos left / Himera standing facing, head left, holding in right hand a patera over altar to left; to right, satyr bathing in fountain with lion-headed spout; [HI-MEP-A]IO[N] (retrograde) counterclockwise around from exergue. Arnold-Biucchi, Monetazione, Group IV, 22 (Q8/H17); Gutmann & Schwabacher 20; HGC 2, 436; SNG Lloyd 1022 (same dies); Basel 306 (same dies); Gillet 434 (same dies); Kraay & Hirmer 71 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXI, 23 = de Luynes 977 (same dies). Fully lustrous under attractive even light tone. Superb EF.


From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex MM Collection (Triton XX, 10 January 2017), lot 51; Gorny & Mosch 236 (7 March 2016), lot 25.