Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 81. Estimate $1500. Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004. Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.36 gm). Struck circa 460-440 BC. Charioteer driving walking quadriga right, holding kentron in left hand, reins with both; Nike flying right above, crowning horses; ketos right in exergue /
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SI-O-N, diademed head of Arethusa right, surrounded by four dolphins swimming clockwise. Boehringer 473 (V253/R341); SNG ANS 146 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1314; SNG Copenhagen 642 (same obverse die). Toned, nice VF, broad flan. ($1500)