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Tetradrachm of Syracuse with head of Arethusa, signed by Kimon

Greek
Classical Period
c. 413–399 B.C.
Mint: Sicily, Syracuse

Medium/Technique Silver
Dimensions Diameter: 27 mm. Weight: 17.00 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.538
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0418.
DescriptionObverse: Head of Arethusa full front, a little to left, with ampyx, earring, plain necklace; hair flying.
At right one dolphin and at left two dolphins.
Traces of inscription outside dotted circle above head; inscription on ampyx (?).
Dotted circle.
Reverse: Quadriga with horses galloping to left; driver, in long chiton, with goad and reins, crowned by Nike flying in upright position, wearing double chiton.
Inscription above at right.
In exergue, stalk of wheat.
Plain border.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Robert Carfrae Collection, Edinburgh; by 1894: with Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Wellington Street, Strand, London (auction of the Robert Carfrae Collection, May 23-25, lot 72); by date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 368); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren