| Heritage World Coin Auctions > CSNS Signature Sale 3115 | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
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| Lot description: Ancients SICILY. Gela. Ca. 413-405 BC. AR tetradrachm (29mm, 17.19 gm, 2h). NGC XF 4/5 - 5/5, Fine Style, overstruck. Charioteer driving quadriga galloping left, with reins in right hand, kentron in left; eagle flying left above, grain ear left in exergue / ΓΕΛ (retrograde), forepart of man-faced bull (river god Gelas) swimming right, with long pointed beard; horizontal grain kernel above. SNG ANS 100 (same dies). Jenkins Group IX, 484. SNG Lockett 778. HGC 2, 359. Generous flan, displaying the powerful form of the river god and racing quadriga to advantage. Ex Heritage Auctions, Auction 3061 (8 January 2018), lot 32007; Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 96 (6 October 2016), lot 1015; 51 Gallery (October 2014), lot 13; Ex Numismatik Lanz, Auction 158 (5 June 2014), lot 34; Kricheldorf 23 (1971), lot 11. Gela was located on the southern coast of Sicily and took its name from the nearby River Gelas, whose river god appears (as a rather benevolent-looking man-faced bull) on the city's coinage from the early fifth century BC. By the mid sixth century BC, Gela had grown so populous that it sent out colonists to found the city of Acragas. From about 498 BC Gela was run by a succession of strong men or "tyrants" (the word did not have the same negative connotation as it has today), including Gelon I, who also seized control of Syracuse in 485 BC and established the Deinomenid Tyranny. Gela was besieged and sacked by the Carthaginians in 405 BC and never quite recovered its former prominence. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-sicily-gela-ca-413-405-bc-ar-tetradrachm-29mm-1719-gm-2h-ngc-xf-4-5-5-5-fine-style-overstruck/a/3115-31002.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3115-05082024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Estimate: 6000-8000 USD |  |
