Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 53. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.21 g, 7h). Struck under Hieron I, circa 478-475 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in left, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath / Diademed head of Arethusa right; ΣYRA-KO-ΣION and four dolphins around. Boehringer series IXa, 217 (O95/R148); SNG ANS 73/74 (same obv./rev. die); Boston MFA 350 (same dies). Good VF. Good metal. Very rare die combination, only the Boston coin recorded by Boehringer, and none were in the Randazzo hoard.