Syracuse, Agathocles 306-289 BC.

9.85g  22mm.

Artemis R with quiver behind. SWTEIRA (Saviour)

Thunderbolt. AGAQOKLEOS  BASILEOS.

SNG ANS 708-731, CNS 142, Bar issue 33, Hoover 1461

From New York Sale, 11 Jan 2017, lot 1026($380)

Ex Superior Stamp and Coin unknown sale prior to 1994.

Perhaps the most talented ancient coin engraver, Kimon gave the local goddess Arethusa the abbreviated label of “saviour” of Syracuse on his Facing Head tetradrachm at the end of the Fifth century BC. In the post-Alexander time of Agathocles, Arethusa had been replaced by Artemis, a higher deity worshipped by the entire Greek world.