Ex Moretti, Lejeune, Nitsch, and De Ciccio
Caltabiano Plate Coin

Triton XVIII, Lot: 368. Estimate $3000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 428-426 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 17.33 g, 12h). The nymph Messana, seated, holding reins in both hands, driving slow biga of mules right; above, Nike flying left, crowning her with wreath held in both hands; laurel leaf and berry in exergue / Hare springing right; MEΣΣANION below. Caltabiano Series XII, 469.1 (D195/R188) = Basel 362 (this coin); SNG ANS –; SNG Copenhagen 398 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 1090 (same obv. die); Rizzo –. Good VF, attractive even gray toning with golden hues around the devices, a few light marks under tone on obverse. Well centered and struck for issue.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Athos D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 362; Ernst Lejeune Collection (Peus 250, 15 March 1954), lot 142; Dr. Eugen Nitsch Collection (A. Hess 236, 3 April 1939), lot 261; Giuseppe De Ciccio Collection (Sambon & Canessa, 19 December 1907), lot 210.