SICILY, Messana. 480-478 BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 3.92 g, 4h). Charioteer, holding kentron in left hand, reins in left, driving slow biga of mules right / Hare springing right; MESSE-NI-ON around. Caltabiano Series IIA, 43.1 (D20/R24 – this coin, also erroneously listed as 41.4); HGC 2, 806; SNG Copenhagen 392 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 1110 (same obv. die); Hermitage Sale II 298 (same obv. die). Deep iridescent tone. VF. Rare.
Ex CNG inventory 884838 (November 2010); Münzen und Medaillen AG 37 (5 December 1968), lot 80; E. Bourgey (17 June 1959), lot 485.