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Lotto 176:
Sicily. Syracuse. Second Democracy (466-405 BC). AR Tetradrachm, c. 420-415 BC. Obv. Charioteer, wearing a long chiton and holding a kentron and the reins, driving a quadriga right, Nike flies right above crowning the horses; in exergue, grasshopper. Rev. [ΣΥ]ΡΑ[ΚΟΣΙ]Ο[Ν]. Head of Arethusa left, wearing hook-earring and necklace; hair bound with cord and wound five times around the head; on either side, two dolphins snout to snout. HGC 2 1325; Boehringer 728; Rizzo pl. XL, 18 (these dies); Schefold, ”Meisterwerke Griechische Kunst”, Basel 1960, 467; Kraay-Hirmer pl. 31, 96 (this reverse die); Antikenmuseum Basel 453 (these dies); Tudeer p. 99, 1 (these dies). AR. 17.16 g. 26.00 mm. RR. Very rare. The finest representation of Arethusa of this period and a superb example of early Classical style. Struck from the final pair of tetradrachm dies that Erich Boehringer included in his landmark study Die Münzen von Syrakus. VF.
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