SICILY, Messana. 420-413 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.25 g, 7h). The nymph Messana, holding kentron in left hand and reins in both, driving slow biga of mules right; retrograde MEΣ-ΣANA counterclockwise from right, two dolphins confronted in exergue / Hare springing right; MEΣΣ-A-N-IO-N around; below, dolphin right. Caltabiano Series XIV, 538.3 (D212/R230 – this coin ); HGC 2, 792; SNG ANS 362; BMC 40; Ognina 132 (same obv. die). Dark iridescent tone, some die wear, scratch on reverse. Good VF.

From the Richard Sharf Collection, purchased from Jonathan Kern, 19 January 2002. Ex G. Hirsch XIX (25 November 1958), lot 53.