Triton XIX, Lot: 49. Estimate $20000. Sold for $22500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.21 g, 11h). Struck circa 460-450 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath held in both hands; in exergue, ketos right / Head of Arethousa right, wearing pearl tainia, single-pendant earring, and necklace; Σ-V-RAKOΣ-I-ON and four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XIVa, 469 (V252/R338); HGC 2, 1311; SNG ANS 144–5 (same rev. die); SNG München 1008 (same dies); Dewing 787 (same obv. die); Gillet 560 (same dies); Jameson 761 (same obv. die); Pozzi 574 (same obv. die); Randazzo 532 (this coin). EF, attractive light gray tone with golden hues around the devices, minor flan flaw on Arethousa’a cheek.

Ex Numismatica Genevensis SA V (2 December 2008), lot 41; Leu 72 (12 May 1998), lot 100; Randazzo/Sicily, 1980 Hoard (CH VII, 17).