Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 101. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.36 g, 1h). Struck circa 440-430 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with open wreath; in exergue, ketos left / Diademed head of Arethusa right, wearing necklace, hair drawn up into a korymbos; four dolphins and ΣYPAKOΣI-ON around. Boehringer series XVIII, 604 (V296/R410); SNG ANS 198 (same obv. die); BMC 104 (same dies); Jameson 775 (same dies); Nanteuil 343 (same dies); Weber 1588 (same dies). Near EF, toned, underlying luster, minor mark on neck of Arethusa.

From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 63 (21 May 2003), lot 113.