Watch List notes:

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.19 g, 2h). In the style of Eukleidas. Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; in exergue, dolphin swimming left / Head of Arethousa left, large band in hair from under which hair flows upward and backward in flame-like locks (depicting her submerged underwater); four dolphins swimming around. Tudeer 89 (V33/R61); HGC 2, 1345. Good VF, toned, oblong flan, double struck on reverse.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Del Parker, 26 April 2009. Ex Gemini V (6 January 2009), lot 469; Commander David R. Hinkle Collection.