Triton XIV, Lot: 25. Estimate $30000. Sold for $24000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Katane. Circa 412-403 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.21 g, 7h). Obverse die signed by Euainetos. Charioteer, holding goad in right hand and reins in both, driving fast quadriga left, passing turn-post to right; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath and holding plaque inscribed EYAIN; crab in exergue / Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath; KATANAIΩN above, bell hanging on knotted cord to left, crawfish to right. Mirone 68; SNG ANS 1260; SNG Lloyd 901; Rizzo pl. XIV, 6; Basel 334; Gulbenkian 188-9; Jameson 550; Pozzi 965; Kraay & Hirmer 42 (all from the same dies). Good VF, attractive light toning, underlying luster. Exceptional centering and strike. One of the classical masterpieces.

Ex Triton XII (6 January 2009), lot 81.