Triton XVI, Lot: 216. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 420-413 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.28 g, 5h). The nymph Messana, holding kentron in left hand and reins in both, driving slow biga of mules right; MEΣΣANA above, two dolphins confronted in exergue / Hare springing right; MEΣΣAN-I-ON around; below, dolphin right. Caltabiano Series XIV, 521 (D207/R218); Rizzo pl. XXVI, 2; SNG ANS –; SNG Lloyd –; SNG Copenhagen 400 (same obv. die); SNG Lockett 826 (same obv. die). Superb EF, even gray toning with slight iridescence around the devices, minor edge splits, a few minor hairlines under tone. Well centered.

From the RCM Collection. Ex Triton VII (13 January 2004), lot 69.