Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 82. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.44 gm). Struck circa 460-440 BC. Charioteer driving walking quadriga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins with both; Nike flying right above, crowning horses; ketos right in exergue / SURAKOSI-O-N, diademed head of Arethusa right, surrounded by four dolphins swimming clockwise. Boehringer 481 (V256/R345); SNG ANS 149 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1314 (same obverse die); SNG Copenhagen 643. EF, finely styled dies. Exceptional and one of the finest known for the variety. ($7500)