Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 77. Estimate $6000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $4800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.70 gm, 5h). Struck circa 485-480 BC. SVR-A, charioteer driving slow quadriga left, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer / SVR-AKO-SI-ON, head of Arethusa right surrounded by four dolphins swimming clockwise. Boehringer Series III, 36 (dies V25/R20); Randazzo -; SNG ANS 6 (same obverse die); SNG Copenhagen -; Jameson 737 (same dies); Pozzi 549 (same dies). Good VF, scattered light porosity. Rare. ($6000)

From the Tony Hardy Collection.