Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 704. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Dekadrachm (43.12 g, 12h). Unsigned dies in the style of Euainetos. Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer driving fast quadriga left, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath; below heavy exergual line, [a military harness, shield], greaves, cuirass, and Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear / SU-R-A-K-OSI-[WN], wreathed head of Arethusa left, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; surrounded by four dolphins; pellet below chin. Gallatin dies R.XXI/J.I; cf. Boehringer, Finanzpolitik, pl. 38, 2; SNG ANS 375 (same obv. die); cf. SNG Copenhagen 694 (same obv. die); Rizzo pl. 53, 17 (same obv. die); BMC 180 (same dies); Boston MFA 430 (same obv. die); SNG Tübingen 655 (same obv. die); Dewing 923-924. Good VF, even gray tone with underlying lustre, usual minor die rust on obverse. Fine style with most of ethnic visible. ($10,000)