Sale: Triton X, Lot: 89. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.18 g, 9h). 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 / SVRA-KOS-ION (retrograde), diademed head of Arethusa right, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace, surrounded by four dolphins. Boehringer 345 (V170/R243); SNG ANS 110 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1298; SNG Fitzwilliam 1190 (same dies). EF, area of minor porosity on obverse.