Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 63. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $30000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Katane. Circa 410 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.01 gm, 9h). Obverse die signed by Herakleidas. Head of Apollo facing slightly left, wearing laurel wreath; HRAKLEIDAS downward in right field / KATANAIWN, charioteer driving fast quadriga left, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both; above, Nike flying right, placing open wreath on charioteer's head; in exergue, fish left. SNG ANS -; cf. SNG Copenhagen 180; Basel 337 (same dies); Gulbenkian 190 (same dies); Rizzo pl. 14, 10 (same dies); Kraay-Hirmer 43 (same dies). VF, attractively toned, well struck. Very rare. ($10,000)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection.