Sale: Triton X, Lot: 88. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny. 485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.37 g, 3h). Struck under Hieron I, circa 475-470 BC. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath / SVRAKOSIO-N (R inverted), diademed head of Arethusa right, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace, surrounded by four dolphins. Boehringer 242 (V109/R164); SNG ANS 84 (same rev. die); SNG Lloyd -; McClean 2610 (same dies); Randazzo 407 (same dies). Good VF, toned, compact flan.