Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 92. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.06 gm, 2h). Struck circa 317-310 BC. Wreathed head of Arethusa left; three dolphins swimming around, NI below neck / SURAKOSIWN, charioteer driving fast quadriga left, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; triskeles above, AI monogram in exergue. Ierardi 15 (O3/R7); SNG ANS 633; SNG Copenhagen 753; Jameson 861 (same obverse die); McClean 2818 (same obverse die). Good VF, lightly toned. ($1500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Bowers and Merena (23-25 June 1986), lot 1252.