Triton XVI, Lot: 217. Estimate $15000. Sold for $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 412-408 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.44 g, 12h). Charioteer, holding kentron in left hand and reins in right, driving slow biga of mules left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in extended right hand and fillet in left / Hare springing right; MEΣΣANION above; below, hippocamp left. Caltabiano Series XVA, 599 (D215/R231); Rizzo pl. XXVII, 1; SNG ANS 380; SNG Lloyd 1108; SNG Lockett 833; Boston MFA 296; Jameson 652; Pozzi 1098 (all from the same dies). EF, attractively toned, slight die shift on reverse.

Ex Nomos 3 (10 May 2011), lot 17.