Sale: Triton X, Lot: 79. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $3400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Messana. 420-413 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.29 g, 10h). MESS-ANA, the nymph Messana, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both, driving slow biga of mules right / MES-S-A-N-IO-N, hare springing right; below, dolphin right. Caltabiano 517 (D206/R197); SNG ANS 356; SNG Lloyd 1097; SNG Copenhagen 399; Boston MFA 291 (all from the same dies). Superb EF.