Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 48. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 420-413 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.21 g, 10h). MESS-ANA, the nymph Messana, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both, driving slow biga of mules right / MESS-A-NI-O-N, hare springing right; below, dolphin right. Caltabiano 518 (D206/R215); SNG ANS 356 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 1097 (same obv. die); McClean 2394 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 399 (same obv. die); Boston MFA 291 (same obv. die). EF, underlying luster, obverse struck a touch softly.

From the W.B. and R.E. Montgomery Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 63 (21 May 2003), lot 97.