An Impressive Offering of Messana Tetradrachms

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 77. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 475-471 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.32 g, 1h). Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both, driving slow biga of mules right; in exergue, leaf right / MESSE-N-IO-N (SS retrograde), hare springing right. Caltabiano 98 (D53/R51); SNG ANS 315-7; SNG Lloyd 1084; Randazzo 109 (same rev. die); Basel 361. Good VF. Well centered and struck.