Watch List notes:

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron I. 478-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.14 g, 12h). Struck circa 475-470 BC. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with wreath held in both hands / Head of Arethousa right, wearing pearl tainia, single-pendant earring and necklace; ΣVR-AKO-ΣIO-И (R inverted) and four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XIIa, 300E (V143/R208E); HGC 2, 1307; Dewing 761 (same obv. die); Randazzo 464 (same dies). EF, toned, underlying luster, some flatness around periphery. Well struck on a broad flan from fresh dies.


From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Numismatica Genevensis SA II (18 November 2002), lot 16.