Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 694. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. Circa 425-421 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.24 g, 2h). Charioteer driving slow biga of mules right, holding reins with both hands; above, Nike standing right on reins, crowning mules with wreath; leaf with fruit in exergue / MES-S-A-N-IO-N, hare springing right; below, dolphin right. Caltabiano 487 (D199/R198); SNG ANS 358 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen Supp. 69 (same obv. die); Rizzo pl. 26, 5 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 1095 (same dies); Boston MFA 290 (same dies). EF, attractive light gray tone with yellow hues around the devices, small die break on obverse. ($3000)

Ex Münzen und Medaillen 37 (5 December 1968), lot 81.