Watch List notes:

SICILY. Syracuse. Time of the Gamoroi or the First Democracy, circa 500-485 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 24 mm, 17.14 g, 4 h). ΣVRA Charioteer driving slow quadriga to right, holding reins with both hands; in exergue, leaf-like ornament. Rev. Head of Arethousa to left in incuse circle in the center of a swastika-shaped quadripartite incuse square. Boehringer 26 (V18/R14). HGC 2, 1302. SNG ANS 4. SNG Lloyd 1277 (same reverse die). Traité I 2248 and pl. 74, 2 (same obverse die). Rare and nicely toned. Very fine.


From the T. Frisbie Collection, ex Manhattan Sale III, 3 January 2012, 64.