Triton XIX, Lot: 41. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 420-413 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.32 g, 1h). The nymph Messana, holding kentron in left hand and reins in both, driving slow biga of mules right; retrograde MEΣ-[Σ]ANA counterclockwise from right, two dolphins confronted in exergue / Hare springing right; MEΣΣAN-I-ON around; below, dolphin right. Caltabiano Series XIV, 535 corr. (D211/R218 [not R228]); HGC 2, 792; SNG ANS 362 (same dies); BMC 40 (same dies). Near EF, a little off center on obverse.