Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1028. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.21 g, 8h). Struck under Hieron I, circa 475-470 BC. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath / Diademed head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer series XIIb, 324 (O159/R227); SNG ANS -; Bement 1019 (same dies). Good VF, toned, minor flan flaw on obverse.

Ex Dix, Noonan, Webb 73 (14 March 2007), lot 63.