Greek Coins Sicily, Syracuse

Tetradrachm circa 510-490, AR 25 mm, 17.22 g. SVRAKO / ΣION Slow quadriga driven r. by clean-shaven charioteer, wearing long chiton and holding reins in each hand. Rev. Head of nymph Arethusa l., hair curling back from forehead with dotted parallel lines, within circle sunk at centre of a swastika developed from the quartering of an incuse square. Rizzo pl. XXXIV, 4. SNG ANS 2. Weber 1549 (these dies). AMB 421 (this obverse die). Kraay-Hirmer pl. 23, 72. Boehringer 9.
Very rare. Well struck and centred on a full flan with a delightful old cabinet tone. Extremely fine

Ex M&M 37, 1968, 90; Leu 79, 2000, 406; NAC 27, 2004, 112; Ira & Larry Goldberg 26 May 2008, Millennia collection, 11; NAC 54, 2010, 49 and NAC 114, 2019, 67 sales.