SICILY, Gela. Circa 420-415 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.14 g, 12h). Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning horses with [wreath held in both hands]; in exergue, heron standing right / Forepart of man-headed bull right; ΓEΛAΣ above. Jenkins, Gela, Group VIII, 468 (O90/R180); HGC 2, 354; SNG ANS 90; SNG Copenhagen 269; SNG Lloyd 971; BMC 50; de Luynes 957; McClean 2258; Ward 153; Weber 1324 (all from the same dies). Old collection tone, some faint cleaning marks under tone, slightly off center on obverse. VF.
From the Father & Son Collection, purchased from Art Ancient, 2016. Ex Monetarium 53 (1 March 1990), no. 29.