SICILY. Syracuse. Dionysios I, 405-367 BC. Litra (Silver, 11.5 mm, 0.80 g, 10 h), circa 405-400. Head of Arethusa to right, wearing simple pendant earring and with her hair in an ampyx; behind her head, dolphin swimming downwards to right. Rev. Octopus. Bérend, KME pl. VI, 16 ( same dies ). Buceti 545. Rizzo pl. XLVII, 14 ( same dies ). Kreutzer, Kleinsilbermünzen, 8.4 ( this coin ). SNG ANS 282 ( same dies, = KME pl. VI, 14 ). SNG Ashmolean ( same dies ). Very rare. Of a fine, fully Classical style. Extremely fine.

From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions, and from the Star Collection, LHS 102, 29 April 2008, 91, ex Münzen und Medaillen 79, 28 February 1994, 182, and from the collections of R. A. van Every, Bank Leu 15, 4 May 1976, 116 and A. Moretti, Bank Leu, FPL Sicilia, September 1962, 111.

On this very rare litra we see Arethusa wearing a very up-to-date hair style!