Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 698. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Didrachm (8.64 g, 10h). Struck under Gelon, circa 480-478 BC. Horseman riding right / SVRA-VR-AKO-SION, diademed head of Arethusa right, wearing pearl diadem, surrounded by three dolphins. Boehringer Series IV, 53 (V28/R36); cf. SNG ANS 26; SNG Copenhagen -; cf. Dewing 700. VF, toned, struck with slightly worn obverse die. ($750)

Ex Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin 548 (January 1965), no. A1020.