Syracuse
AR tetradrachm 17.3862 g, 24.6 mm
405-400 BC
1. 1942. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals Danish National Museum. Sicily Part II. Segesta-Sardinia. #682 (var). Copenhagen: Munksgaard. 2. Grose, S. W. 1926. Fitzwilliam Museum Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Greek Coins. Volume I. Western Europe, Magna Graecia, Sicily. Page 324 #2720 (var) and Plate 96.9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 3. 1913. Tudeer, Lauri O. Th. Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Syrakus in der Periode der signierenden Künstler Page 67 #96 and Plate V O34 R65. Berlin: W. Pormetter. 4. Poole, Reginald Stuart. 1876. Catalogue of Greek Coins. Sicily. Page 174 #195. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. 5. Rizzo, Gulio Emanuele. 1946. Monete Greche Della Sicilia Page 226 #15 and Plate XLVIII #15. Roma: La Libreria Dello Stato.
Obverse
Fast quadriga with prancing horses driven to the left. Charioteer with kentron, crowned by Nike flying above. Dolphin swimming to the left in the exergue. Unsigned die by Eukleidas.
Reverse
Water nymph Arethusa facing left, with double hook earring and necklace with pendant, hair bound with sphendone, tresses floating overhead. Around her four dolphins, two swimming to the left, two to the right