[coin size: 3.5cm/1. 38"]
Material: Silver - decadrachm.
Time period: 485 BCE to 400 BCE.
The coin's obverse side (top) depicts a quadriga, a chariot drawn by four horses, with a charioteer and the goddess of victory, Nike, flying above. This scene represents the city's wealthy tyrants who funded quadrigas for the Olympic chariot races.
The reverse side (bottom) features a portrait of the nymph Arethusa, a water nymph associated with a spring in Syracuse.
Arethusa was a Naiad-nymph of a sacred spring in the Greek colony of Syracuse, on the island of Ortygia near Sicily.
