Triton XIX, Lot: 42. Estimate $2000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 420-413 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.40 g, 5h). The nymph Messana, holding kentron in left hand and reins in both, driving slow biga of mules right; MEΣΣA-[NA] above and before, two dolphins confronted in exergue / Hare springing right; MEΣ-Σ-A-N-IO-N around; below, dolphin right. Caltabiano Series XIV, 526 (D208/R223); SNG ANS –; SNG Lloyd 1097; BMC 39 (same dies); Basel 363 (same dies); Dewing 649 (same obv. die); Rizzo pl. XXVI, 3. EF, lustrous, struck from worn obverse die, die break on reverse.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Ponterio 142 (27 April 2007), lot 1573; Leu 45 (26 May 1988), lot 45.