Among the Finest
From the Phoenix Art Museum & Randazzo Hoard

Triton XVIII, Lot: 355. Estimate $20000. Sold for $22500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Katane. Circa 461-450 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.31 g, 9h). River god Amenanos crouching right; laurel branch above; below, fish right / Nike advancing left, holding tainia in extended right hand; KAT-ANE to left. Mirone 13 (same obv. die as illustration); Randazzo 50 (this coin); HGC 2, 559 (same dies as illustration); SNG ANS 1235 (same dies); SNG Lloyd –; Basel –; Dewing –; Gulbenkian 175; Hunt II 225 (same obv. die); Jameson 1891 (same dies); Kraay & Hirmer 29; Rizzo pl. IX, 3 (same dies). EF, a little die rust on obverse, slightly off center on reverse. Very rare, fewer than 20 specimens known with the branch on the obverse, of which this is among the finest.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 64 (17 May 2012), lot 673; Phoenix Art Museum Collection (Triton II, 1 December 1998), lot 171; Orme Lewis Sr. Collection; Randazzo/Sicily, 1980 Hoard (CH VII, 17).