Among the Finest

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 56. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.11 g, 5h). Struck circa 430-420 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath / Head of Arethusa right, hair bound by four bands, wearing necklace; four dolphins and ΣYPA-KO-Σ-ION around. Boehringer series XXII, 666 (V337/R455); SNG ANS 218 (same dies); Basel 450 (this coin); Pozzi 588 (same dies). Good VF/EF, toned, slight porosity, a few scrapes. Among the finest for the type. Struck on an oversized flan.

Ex Golden Horn Collection (Stack’s, 12 January 2009), lot 2128; UBS 61 (14 September 2004), lot 4224; A.D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 450.