Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 80. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $7600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-406 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.29 gm). Struck circa 466-460 BC. Charioteer driving walking quadriga right, holding reins with both hands; Nike flying left above, crowning charioteer; ketos right in exergue / SVRA-KO-SI-ON, diademed head of Arethusa right, surrounded by four dolphins swimming clockwise. Boehringer 443 (V233/R319); SNG ANS 136 (same reverse die); SNG Lloyd -; SNG Copenhagen 640 (same reverse die). Nice EF, well centered and well struck on a choice flan. ($7500)