Watch List notes:

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.99 g, 9h). Struck circa 450 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer with open wreath held in both hands; in exergue, ketos right / Head of Arethusa right, hair restrained by band, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace; ΣVPA-KO-[ΣI]-O-N and four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XV, 536 (V274/R374); HGC 2, 1311; SNG ANS 172–5 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 1323 (same dies); BMC 100 (same dies). VF, toned, some light marks, area of roughness on reverse. Well struck from an artistic reverse die.


Ex Peus 405 (2 November 2011), lot 2186.