Triton XIX, Lot: 43. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 412-408 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.61 g, 8h). The nymph Messana, holding reins in both hands, driving slow biga of mules left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in both hands; two dolphins confronted in exergue / Hare springing left; below, head of pan left, retrograde MEΣ-Σ-AN-ION around. Caltabiano series XV A, 608.15 (D218/R237 – this coin); SNG Copenhagen 406; BMC 51; Boston MFA 294; Gillet 471; McClean 2397; Dewing 656; Jameson 654 (all from the same dies). Good VF, attractively toned, some roughness on reverse, scuffs on edge.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 884866 (December 2010); Hess-Leu 28 (5 May 1965), lot 72; Hess-Leu [3] (27 March 1956), lot 126; Cahn 80 (27 February 1933), lot 87.

Caltabiano lists a further pedigree to Glendining 1931, but this is incorrect. Also, the Cahn sale lists the coin as being from the Spencer-Churchill collection, but this cannot be verified, and this pedigree does not appear in other sales of this coin.