Watch List notes:

SICILY. Syracuse. Second Democracy, 466-405 BC. Trias or Tetronkion (Bronze, 15 mm, 1.93 g, 4 h), circa 415-410. Head of Arethusa to right; around, X - X - X - X. Rev. Σ-Y-P-A Winged hippocamp to right; below, octopus; around, three pellets. Basel 454 (this coin). Boehringer 172. CNS II, 30. HGC 2, 1433 (this coin illustrated). Very rare and with a lovely brown patina. Some deposits and with a thin flan crack, otherwise, good very fine.


From the Kleinkunst Collection and from the collection of A. D. Moretti, Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998, 454.