SYRACUSE, SICILY AR TETRADRACHM, DEINOMENID TYRANNY
SNG ANS 7 (this the plate coin), Boehringer 38 (V26/R22), HGC 2, 1303, About Very Fine / Fine, 26.6mm, 16.61 grams, Aradus Mint, Struck Circa. 485 480 B.C.E., Lifetime to early posthumous
Obverse: Charioteer, holding kentron and reins, driving quadriga to right; above Nike flying right, crowning one horse with right hand and another horse with left hand
Reverse: Small head of Arethusa to right, wearing narrow stephane and choker, hair bound in back, ΣΥRAQOΣΙΟΝ within four dolphins around
An early Greek Syracusan Tetradrachm with an impeccable pedigree. Even wear and surface marks. Struck on good metal with an exceptional broad flan showing all the design elements of the coin in completion as they were meant to be seen.
Ex: ANS Collection, Inventory # 1944.100.55110, donated to the ANS by bequest of the eminent numismatist Edward T. Newell in 1944 and decommissioned in 2009. Published plate coin in SNG ANS 7
Ex: Adolph Cahn Sale 68, November 26, 1930, Lot #1101, (Moritz Simon Collection). Acquired at auction by Edward T. Newell
