Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1173. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Himera. Circa 409-407 BC. Obverse die signed by the artist MAI. AR Tetradrachm (17.29 gm). The nymph Himera driving unruly quadriga right, holding reins in both hands; Nike flying above, holding wreath and plaque inscribed MAI; sea-monster left in exergue / TI-[MEP-AION] retrograde, Himera, standing front, head turned to the left, holding patera in right hand over altar, left hand raised; to right, a satyr bathing in a fountain beneath a lion-headed spout. Arnold-Biucchi, "La monetazione d'argento di himera," in Quaderni Ticinesi XVII (1988), 22 (same dies); Gutmann-Schwabacher 20; Rizzo pl. 21, 23 (same dies); Basel 306 (same dies); Kraay-Hirmer 71 (same dies). Superb EF, lustrous. ($2500)

From the William N. Rudman Collection.