ANCIENT COINS. GREEK. Sicily, Syracuse (second Democracy, 466-405 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm, 17.35g, 4h. Struck c.420-415 B.C. 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, grasshopper to right in the exergue. Rev. ΣYPAK[OΣI]ON, head of Arethusa facing right, her hair in a sakkos, four dolphins swimming around (Boehringer -, cf 727-728 (V360/R495); Rizzo pl. XL, 17 (this reverse die); McClean 2682, pl. 94, 3 (this reverse die); Jameson 781 (this reverse die); Pozzi 590 (this reverse die)). Of confident and attractive style, toned, very fine. A very rare die combination, not recorded by Boehringer
Ex Spink Numismatic Circular, Volume XCI, Number 6, London, July 1983, 4535
Estimate: $3,500