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Triton XXI, Lot: 349. Estimate $4000.
Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.11 g, 9h). Struck circa 430-420 BC. Charioteer, wearing long chiton, holding kentron in right hand and reins in left, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath held in both hands / Diademed head of Arethousa right, hair in ornate sakkos with maeander pattern and laurel branch, wearing earring and necklace; ΣYPAKOΣION and four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XXI, 660 (V333/R448); HGC 2, 1319; Gillet 586 var. (Nike left; same obv. die); Virzi Sale 261 (same dies). Good VF, toned.


Ex New York Sale XXX (9 January 2013), lot 62.