Watch List notes:

ANCIENT COINS. A Selection of Syracuse Tetradrachms from an Old Collection. A Boehringer Plate Coin, from the Virzi Collection. Sicily, Syracuse (Second Democracy, 466-405 BC), Silver Tetradrachm, struck c.450-440 BC, charioteer, wearing a long chiton and holding a kentron and the reins, driving a slow quadriga right, Nike flies above to right to crown the horses, ketos to right in the exergue, rev ΣVRAKOΣ[I]ON, head of Arethusa facing right, her hair tied with a broad band, and wearing an earring and necklace, four dolphins swimming around, 17.10g, 3h (Boehringer 564 (V285/R379), 9, Tf. 21, this coin; SNG Lockett 941, these dies).Slightly off-centre, good metal, attractive classical style, about extremely fine.
This coin published in Die Münzen von Syrakus, E Boehringer (1929), p.217, 564, 9, the reverse illustrated on pl. 21
ex Virzi collection, Jacob Hirsch XXXII, 14-15 November 1912, lot 214
ex Naville VI, Lucerne, 28 January 1927, lot 475
ex 'American Collection', Glendinings, 5 October 1987, lot 30

Estimate: £2000-2500