Triton XVI, Lot: 227. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.05 g, 9h). Struck circa 413-405 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand and reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with open wreath held in both hands; EV below horses; in exergue, two dolphins confronted / Head of Arethusa left, wearing anchor-shaped earring and plain necklace; ΣYPAKOΣIOИ above, four swimming dolphins around. Tudeer 27 (dies 10/18); Rizzo pl. XLII, 14; SNG ANS 260; Hunterian 42; de Luynes 1174; Ward 277 (all from the same dies). Near EF, toned, a few light marks under tone.

Ex Gemini VII (9 January 2011), lot 136; Numismatic Fine Arts XVIII (31 March 1987), lot 50.