GREEK COINS
SICILY
Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny, 485-466 BC . Circa 430 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 23mm, 17.33 g 12). Male charioteer, wearing a long chiton and holding a goad in his right hand and the reins in both, driving a walking quadriga to right; above, Nike flying right to crown the horses. Rev. ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΟΝ Head of Arethusa to right, wearing a double spiral earring and a simple necklace, and with her hair bound in a sakkos ornamented with a patterned band over her forehead; before Arethusa’s head, two dolphins swimming upwards and one swimming downwards; behind her neck, dolphin swimming upwards. Boheringer 642 (V326/R442). SNG ANS 207. With an undeniably elegant and sharply struck head of Arethusa. Struck on a short flan from a worn obverse die, otherwise , about extremely fine. From a Swiss collection, ex SKA Monetarium FPL 44, Autumn 1985, 16.