Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 84. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Dekadrachm (43.40 gm, 8h). Unsigned dies in the style of Euainetos. Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer driving fast quadriga left, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; below heavy exergual line, a military harness, shield, greaves, cuirass, and Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear, [AQLA] below / S-U-RA-K-OS-IWN, wreathed head of Arethusa left, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; surrounded by four swimming dolphins; shell behind. Gallatin dies R.XIV/F.IV; Boehringer, Finanzpolitik, pl. 38, 2; SNG ANS 373 (same obverse die); SNG Copenhagen 692; Dewing 911 (same dies). Good VF, obverse toned darker than the reverse, light obverse die rust. Very rare die combination. ($15,000)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection.