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Triton XXV  11-12 Jan 2022
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Lot 77

Estimate: 5000 USD
Price realized: 32 000 USD
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SICILY, Messana. 412-408 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.12 g, 2h). Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving slow biga of mules left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with open wreath held in her extended hands; in exergue, two dolphins confronted / Hare springing right; below, youthful head of Pan right and syrinx; MEΣΣAN-ION around. Caltabiano Series XVA, 603.9 (D217/R235) = Morgan 121 (this coin); HGC 2, 795; SNG Fitzwilliam 1077 (same dies); SNG Lockett 829 (same dies). Deep cabinet tone, light marks on reverse. Good VF.

From the Pythagoras Collection. Ex Stack's (10 June 1970), lot 684; J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (sold privately; not in H. Schulman or Stack's sales); Giuseppe De Ciccio Collection (Sambon & Canessa, 19 December 1907), lot 218; Maddalena & Sambon, 7 September 1903), lot 15.
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