Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 699. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.27 g, 2h). Struck under Hieron I, circa 475-470 BC. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath / SL-RA-K-OSION (R inverted, N retrograde), diademed head of Arethusa right, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace, surrounded by four dolphins. Boehringer Series XIIb, 313 (V151/R219); Randazzo 480 (same dies); SNG ANS 101 (same dies); cf. SNG Copenhagen 628; Dewing 763 (same dies). EF. Well centered and struck. ($4000)