Lot 5
Lot 30005 > SICILY. Syracuse. Second Democracy (ca. 450-440 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 16.97 gm, 8h). NGC XF 4/5 - 2/5, brushed. Charioteer driving quadriga walking right, kentron in right hand, reins in both; Nike flying right above to crown the horses, ketos right in exergue / ΣYRAKO-Σ-I-O-N, head of Arethusa right, wearing wide taenia, pendant earring and pearl necklace, hair pulled up under taenia and looped over back; four dolphins swimming clockwise around. Boehringer 536 (V274/R374). SNG ANS 171 (same reverse die) and 172-5 (same obverse die). Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XVII (7 January 2014), lot 65; Peus 405 (2 November 2011), lot 2186
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