CNG Auction #12
Web Product ID: 2644
Estimate: $750.00
Final Sale Price: $918.50
Denomination: Tetradrachm
Grade: VF lightly toned
Reference: Caltabiano 101 (O51/R59 -- this coin)  Bruttium, Rhegion. Circa 478-476 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.40 gm). Charioteer in biga
  right, holding reigns and kentron; leaf in exergue / Hare bounding right. Caltabiano
  101 (O51/R59 -- this coin); P. Attianese, Calabria Greca III, 1311. Lightly toned VF.
  Rare. Estimate $750.

  Ex J. Schulman Auction 265 (28 September 1976), lot 45; ex J. Schulman Auction 264
  (26 April 1976), lot 5030; ex Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Ward Collection, pt.
  II (Sotheby & Co., 4-5 April 1973), lot 90.

 With the exception of the identifying ethnic, the early coinage of Rhegion is nearly
  identical to that of Messana in Sicily, located directly across the narrow straits
  from Rhegion.