Ancient Coins: GREEK SILVER: Sicily, Syracuse, pedigreed to 1975

AR Tetradrachm, 17.29g. 24mm.  c.480-475 B.C.  Charioteer driving quadriga to right; nike crowning lead horse with a wreath from above.  Rev.  Diademed head of Arethusa to right; four dolphins around; large die break behind head obscures one dolphin. Boehringer 266(dies).   Fine old collection toning and with some interesting archaic letter forms in the ethnic inscription for Syracuse.

Provenance/Pedigree:
Ex: Peus, Frankfurt, Auction 288, 1975, lot 93. 

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