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Lot 4141    SESSION 16 (9.30AM FRIDAY 29TH JULY)    Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $1,200
Bid at live.noble.com.au

SICILY, Katana (Catana), (435-412 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (17.13 g), obv. slow quadriga driven to right by male charioteer holding goad, rev. laureate head of Apollo to right, hair turned up behind, some off flan KATA[NAION], (S.767 [£1500], cf.SNG ANS 1253, Mirone "Le monete dell' antica Catana," 50, Rizzo Pl.XI, HGC 2, 568 [R2]). Dark patination in places, otherwise very fine and very rare.

Ex Freeman & Sear December 4, 2003 private purchase with their ticket.
A distinctive obverse die with a break occuring on the goad.
Another example in similar condition from the same dies was in CNG Auction 93, 22 May 2013, (lot 52) it realised US $1100.

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