Watch List notes:

SICILY, Messana. 478-476 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.33 g, 1h). Charioteer, holding kentron in left hand, reins in both, driving slow biga of mules right; olive leaf and berry in exergue / Hare springing right; MESSE-И-IO-И around. Caltabiano Series IIB, 75 (D41/R38); HGC 2, 779; SNG ANS 318; Bement 405 (same dies); Hunterian 3 (same dies); Randazzo 105–6 (same dies). Good VF, toned. Early die state. Rare in this condition.


From the J. L. Gomer Collection. Ex Triton XVII (7 January 2014), lot 52.