Nomos 22

SICILY. Syracuse. Second Democracy, 466-405 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 17.25 g, 9 h), signed by the artists Euth... on the obverse and Eumenes on the reverse, struck circa 413-399. Winged male charioteer driving fast quadriga to right; above, Nike flying left to crown him; in exergue, Skylla swimming to right, holding trident over her left shoulder and pointing, with her right hand, at a fish swimming to right before her; behind Skylla and above her tail, dolphin to right, before her to right, ΕΥΘ. Rev. ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ Head of Arethusa to left, her hair bound in a sakkos tied over her forehead, wearing double-curved earring and a necklace of pearls; around, four dolphins, three swimming to left and one swimming downwards to right; below neck truncation, ΕΥΜΕ/ΝΟ-Υ. Fischer-Bossert/Tudeer 48. Rizzo pl. XLIII,10, SNG ANS 275 and SNG Munich 1060 (all from the same dies). Clear and well-centered. Obverse struck from a worn die, otherwise, about extremely fine.

From the Arethusa Collection, acquired in the 1980s and 1990s.