Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 68. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. Circa 412-408 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.15 gm, 6h). Charioteer driving slow biga of mules left, holding kentron in right hand, reins with both; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; two dolphins in exergue / MESS-AN-ION, hare springing right; below, head of Pan right. Caltabiano 611 (D219/R240 - this coin listed as specimen 24); SNG ANS 371 var. (same obverse die, head of Pan left); SNG Copenhagen 404 (same dies); BMC Sicily pg. 104, 50 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1100 (same dies); Jameson 655 (same dies); McClean 2396 (same dies). Good VF, nick on horse's shoulder, some obverse die wear. Nicely centered and well struck. ($3000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Elizabeth Washburn King Collection (Christie's, December 11, 1992), lot 640; H. Osborne O'Hagan Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 13 July 1908), lot 148; Bunbury Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 7 December 1896), lot 350.