Nomos 22

SICILY. Kamarina. Circa 425-405 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 16.23 g, 5 h), signed by the engraver Exakestidas on the obverse. Athena, wearing helmet, aegis and a long chiton, and holding a kentron in her right hand and the reins in her left, driving a quadriga galloping to right; above, Nike flying to left to crown her; on the exergual line, signature ΕΞΑΚΕΣΤΙΔΑΣ; in the exergue, two amphorae with a connecting line. Rev. [ΚΑΜΑΡΙΝΑΙΟΝ] Head of youthful Herakles to right, wearing a lion's skin headdress knotted beneath his chin; before Herakles's chin, olive sprig (but here effaced by a large die break). Westermark & Jenkins -, but cf. 146 for the obverse O8 and 147 for the reverse R14 (this die combination apparently unrecorded). Clear and well-centered. Considerable traces of corrosion; reverse slightly double-struck and minted from a damaged and rusty die, otherwise, good very fine.

From a Swiss collection, acquired in the 1990s.