445, Lot: 42. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 420-413 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.29 g, 5h). The nymph Messana, holding kentron and reins, driving slow biga of mules left; [two dolphins confronted in exergue] / Hare springing right; below, cicada right. Caltabiano Series XIV, 516 (D205'/R214); HGC 2, 791; SNG ANS 373 (same dies); Jameson 650 (same dies). EF, encrustation on obverse, partial flat strike on reverse.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 117.