**Originally Listed At $500**

Italy, Sicily, Syracuse, ca. 440 to 430 BCE. AR tetradrachm (16.33 g). Obverse: Charioteer driving quadriga left. Reverse: Head of Arethusa right. Rare and one of the finest dies in the series. Ex. CNG. Boehringer 596. Size: 1.05" W (2.7 cm)

Arethusa is the patron figure of Syracuse. She was a nymph and a Nereid, a daughter of Nereus, who fled from the unwanted advances of creepy river god Alpheus. She sought help from Artemis, and ultimately wound up in the sea. When Demeter sought her daughter Persephone, kidnapped by Hades, Arethusa gave the goddess information on her daughter in exchange for Demeter discontinuing her punishment of Sicily. The coins bearing Arethusa's image, surrounded by dolphins, are among the most beautiful from ancient Greece.

Provenance: private Healy collection, Studio City, California, USA, acquired over the last twenty years

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VF, porous.