Watch List notes:

SICILY, Himera. Circa 409-407 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 17.48 g, 3h). 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-AI]ON (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). Toned over full luster, slightly off center on obverse. Superb EF.


Ex Fred Shore FPL 98 (July 2001), no. 21; Munzen & Medaillen AG FPL 563 (March 1993), lot 27; Munzen & Medaillen AG 77 (18 September 1992), lot 22.