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Cited in Caltabiano

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1025. Estimate $1500. 
Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010. 
Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 425-421 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.11 g, 12h). The nymph Messana, holding reins in both hands, driving slow biga of mules right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath; in exergue, two dolphins confronted / Hare springing right; below, dolphin right. Caltabiano 497.11 (D202/R205 – this coin); SNG ANS 360 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1092 (same dies); SNG Lockett = Pozzi 1092 (same dies). VF, lightly toned, some porosity.


Ex Morton & Eden (25 May 2004), lot 286; Lanz 22 (10 May 1982), lot 119.