Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 61. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Himera. Circa 409-407 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.66 gm, 4h). Signed by the artist MAI. The nymph Himera driving unruly quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning Himera with wreath, and holding plaque inscribed MAI; in exergue, ketos left / TI-[MEP-AION] retrograde, Himera holding patera over altar; to right, satyr bathing in fountain with a lion-headed spout. Arnold-Biucchi, Monetazione, Group IV, 22 (Q8/H17); Gutmann-Schwabacher 20; SNG ANS -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Lloyd 1022 (same dies); Rizzo pl. 21, 23 (same dies); Basel 306 (same dies); Kraay-Hirmer 71 (same dies). Superb EF, lustrous. ($4000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.