Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 93. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Time of Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.12 gm). Struck circa 405-395 BC. Charioteer driving galloping quadriga left, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both; Nike flying right above, crowning charioteer; dolphin swimming left in exergue / SU-RA-K-O-[SI]-W-N, head of Arethusa left wearing double looped earrings and a necklace with a small pendant, large band in hair from under which hair flows upward and backward in flame-like locks (meant to depict her beneath the water), surrounded by four swimming dolphins. Tudeer 103 (V35/R70); SNG ANS 300 (same obverse dies); SNG Lloyd 1407 (same obverse die); SNG Copenhagen 682; Jameson 809 (same obverse die). Good VF, light porosity on both sides. ($2000)