Watch List notes:

ANCIENT COINS. GREEK. Sicily, Syracuse (second Democracy, 466-405 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm, 16.89g, 6h. Overstruck on a Tetradrachm of Katania, c.450 B.C. Charioteer, wearing a long chiton, holding a kentron and the reins, driving a quadriga right, Nike flies above to right to crown the horses, ketos to right in the exergue. Rev. ΣVRAKOΣI-O-N, head of Arethusa facing right, wearing a pearl-diadem, earring and necklace, four dolphins swimming around (Boehringer 517 (V 271/R368); BMC 84 (these dies); SNG ANS 166 (these dies); Rizzo, pl. XXXVII, 8 (this reverse die); C.Kraay, 'The Demereteion in Sicilian Chronology', in Greek Coins and History, pl. 5, 3 (this coin)). A fascinating overstrike, the types of Katania still partially visible, dark old cabinet tone, about extremely fine.
Ex Leu Numismatik AG, Auction 54, Zurich, 28 April 1992, lot 32


Estimate: $5,000