Triton XVIII, Lot: 338. Estimate $20000. Sold for $40000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Akragas. Circa 409-406 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.19 g, 4h). Silanos, magistrate. Nike, holding kentron in extended right hand, reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, AKPAΓ/ANTIN-ON in two lines on tablet (partially retrograde, last two letters outside tablet); club left in exergue / Two eagles standing right on dead hare below, the closest eagle with wings closed and head raised, the further eagle with wings spread and head lowered; ΣIΛA-NOΣ along left edge. Seltman, Engravers 16 (dies J/o); HGC 2, 86; SNG ANS 1000; SNG Lloyd –; Basel –; Dewing 565; Gillet 356; Gulbenkian 170; McClean 2041; Rizzo pl. III, 3 (all from the same dies). Good VF, lightly toned. Well centered and struck for issue.

Ex Triton V (15 January 2002), lot 1163.