Sale: Triton X, Lot: 90. Estimate $4000. Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.25 g, 5h). Struck circa 450 BC. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath; in exergue, ketos right /
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SI-ON, head of Arethusa right, wearing earring and necklace; surrounded by four dolphins. Boehringer 515 (V270/R366); SNG ANS 170 (same rev. die); SNG Lloyd 1320; BMC 83 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXXVI, 6 (same dies); Basel 437 = Jameson 783 (same dies); Pozzi 578 (same dies). Good VF, attractive old toning. Struck on a broad flan of wonderful metal.