Watch List notes:

SICILY, Messana. 425-421 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.34 g, 10h). Charioteer, holding reins in both hands, driving slow biga of mules right; above, Nike flying right, crowning mules with open wreath held in both hands; in exergue, two dolphins confronted / Hare springing right; below, dolphin right; ME-Σ-Σ-AN-IO-N around. Caltabiano Series XIII, 500 (D201/R202); HGC 2, 787; SNG ANS 361 (same obv. die); Hindamian (Ciani-Vinchon 1956), 201 (same dies); Von Schennis (J. Hirsch 1913), 367 (same dies). EF, toned. Well struck from fresh dies.


Ex Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2010), no. 15.