Syracuse. Tetradrachm circa 475-470, AR 17.39 g. Slow quadriga driven r. by charioteer holding reins and kentron; above, Nike flying r., crowning horses Rev. ΣV – RΑΚΟ – ΣΙO – Ν retrograde; Head of Arethusa r., hair bound with beaded fillet and wearing earring and double necklace; around, four dolphins swimming clockwise. SNG ANS 113 (these dies). Boehringer 353.
Of fine late archaic style and with a lovely old cabinet tone. Minor areas
of porosity on reverse, otherwise about extremely fine

Ex Glendining’s sale 1950, Platt-Hall part I, 49. From the Peckover and A.D.M. collections.