SICILY. Syracuse. Period of the Second Democracy - Dionysios I, 413-399 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 17.27 g, 10 h), signed by Parmenides on the reverse. Charioteer, holding reins and kentron, driving a quadriga rushing to left, about to turn; above, Nike flying right to crown the driver; below the hooves of the horse in the foreground, chariot wheel; in exergue, barley ear. Rev. ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ Head of Arethusa to left, wearing ampyx and sphendone decorated with stars, triple pendant earring and simple necklace; around, three dolphins swimming in different directions, with a fourth emerging from under the neck truncation; below, ΠΑΡΜΕ. BMC 213 (same dies). Jameson 836 (same dies). Fischer-Bossert/Tudeer 77. Toned and with a splendid head of Arethusa. Obverse struck from a slightly worn die, otherwise, extremely fine.

From the Arethusa Collection, acquired in the 1980s and 1990s.