Watch List notes:

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.20 g, 8h). Obverse die signed by Euainetos, reverse die signed by Eumenes. Struck circa 413-405 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, holding wreath in both hands, from which hangs tablet inscribed EYAIN/ETO in two lines; two dolphins confronted in exergue / Head of Arethousa left, wearing hoop earring and necklace; EVMHNOV below, ΣVPA-KOΣIΩN and four dolphins swimming around. Tudeer 43 (V14/R25); HGC 2, 1332; SNG ANS 270; BMC 148-9; Boston MFA 408 = Warren 375; Dewing 845; de Luynes 1204; Ward 279 (all from the same dies). Good VF, toned, slight die shift on obverse.


From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Ceresio I (26 September 1987), lot 50.