Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1232. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Circa 405 BC. Reverse die signed by Parmenides. AR Tetradrachm (17.26 gm). Charioteer driving galloping quadriga left, holding kentron and reins in left hand, right hand raised; Nike flying above and crowning charioteer, grain ear in exergue / [SURA]KOSIWN, head of Arethusa left, wearing ampyx and sphendone, surrounded by four dolphins swimming; signature PARME under truncation of neck. Tudeer 77 (V27/R49); Jameson 836 (same dies); SNG Lockett 976 (same dies); Antikenmuseum Basel 472 (this coin). Attractive light toning, nice VF. ($3000)

From the William N. Rudman Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 13 (8 October 1998), lot 472.