Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 82. Estimate $25000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $24000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Dekadrachm (42.40 gm, 6h). Unsigned dies by Kimon. Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer driving fast quadriga left, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; below heavy exergual line, a military harness, shield, greaves, cuirass, and Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear; AQLA below / SURAKOSIWN, head of Arethusa left, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace, hair restrained at the back of her head in an open-weave sakkos; surrounded by four swimming dolphins. Jongkees 9b (B/q) = SNG Lockett 989 = Pozzi 612 (this coin); Boehringer, Finanzpolitik, pl. 38, 1; SNG ANS 358 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen Supp. 81; Dewing 871 (same dies); Gulbenkian 305 (same dies). Good VF, toned, moderate obverse die rust and some light obverse scratches. ($25,000)

Ex R.C. Lockett Collection (Glendining's, 25-28 October 1955), lot 892; Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 14 March 1921), lot 612.