Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 700. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.09 g, 4h). Struck circa 450-440 BC. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both hands; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath; in exergue, ketos right / SVRAKOSI-ON, diademed head of Arethusa right, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace with a pendant, surrounded by four dolphins. Boehringer Series XVIa, 561 (V284/R388); SNG ANS 182 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 648; Dewing 807; SNG Ashmolean 1973 (same dies). EF, underlying lustre. ($2500)

Ex Triton V (15 January 2002), lot 1192.