SYRACUSE. Tetradrachm circa 460-440 BC. 17.19 g. Charioteer driving walking quadriga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins with both; Nike flying above crowning horses, ketos in exergue // Diademed head of Arethusa right, hair tied behind neck in three rolls, surrounded by four dolphins swimming clockwise. Boehringer 524 (V272/R369); SNG ANS 167 (same reverse die); SNG Lockett 935 (same reverse die).
Flan crack, otherwise good very fine
Provenance: Auction Glendining & Co. LTD, London (UK), 13 December 1963, lot n°148; Auction Adolph Hess AG 249, Lucerne (Switzerland), 13 November 1979, lot n°100.
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