Triton XVI, Lot: 226. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.31 g, 11h). Struck circa 430 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath held in both hands; laurel branch in exergue / Head of Arethusa right, hair in ornate sakkos, wearing plain necklace; ΣYPAKOΣ-I-O-N and four dolphins around. Boehringer 652 (V330/R447); SNG ANS 215; Dewing 822 (same dies [the rev. reengraved]); J. Hirsch XXXII [Virzi], lot 288 (same dies). EF, attractive even gray tone with slight iridescence around the devices, slightly weak strike on obverse, tiny knock on cheek. Lovely style.

Ex Roma II (2 October 2011), lot 105; Patrick H.C. Tan Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 85, 15 September 2010), lot 198; Nomos 2 (18 May 2010), lot 26.