Syracuse, Sicily, Æ19. Time of Agothokles, 317-289 BC, Head of Persephone left. / Bull butting left, club and T above, IS in exergue.
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Struck in Syracuse, Sicily, around 465 B.C. The first decadrachm type ever issued in the Greek coin series, preparing the way for further special issues of decadrachms from Syracuse, Akragas, and Athens.
SICILE - SYRACUSE (Ve siècle avant J.-C.)
Hiéron I, tyran de Syracuse (478-467 avant J.-C.)
Tétradrachme - c. 480-475 AC.
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Syracuse Tetradrachm
Syracuse is located on the southeast corner of the island of Sicily, and was allied with Corinth and Sparta at the height of its power. It was considered the most beautiful city-state of all of Greece.
Syracuse Hemilitron 10mm .3g
The largest coin my microscope can photograph
Syracuse Hexas 5mm .05g
My lightest coin but laminated and ugly ...
Syracuse Tetradrachm signed by Kimon
Below = Kind of a time lapse of the carving process. The image above is of the final piece prior to some final touch-ups ...
Syracuse. The earliest coins of Syracuse probably belong to the time of the landed oligarchy of the Geomori or Gamori.
(Syracuse, Symmachy). 492pp. 2463 ill. (900 enlargements). Vol. 3-Areas V, VI, VII and VIII, plus Addenda.
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SNG ANS ...
Sicily-Syracuse, AR Tetradrachm, c.485-480 BC, Deinomenid Tyranny, Struck under Gelon
(No legend)
Charioteer driving walking quadriga right, holding kentron and reins; Nike flying above and crowning horses
SURAK_OSI_O_N ...
Sicily, Syracuse, 474-450 BC, AR Tetradrachm (16.93g). Biga rt., Nike above/Artemis-Arethusa head rt., dolphins around, SNG ANS 180. Obv. centered with biga driver and cart partly off as usual, rev.
There are many coins which bear no head at all, and others-the fifth century coins of Syracuse and the staters of Corinth are but two examples-on which the "heads" side is clearly the reverse.
With the capture of Syracuse, the Romans are able to pacify all of Sicily.
Phillippicus, S1460A, Follis, Syracuse
Leo III, S1534C, 1/8 Siliqua (30 Nummi), Rome (monogram of Pope Gregory III)
Andronicus II, Palaeologus, Restored Byzantine Empire, S2329, Billon Tornese, Constantinople, (Palaeologan monogram, ) ...
Some of the most beautiful coins in the whole of the Greek series emanate from the city of Syracuse. Large silver dekadrachms designed by Euainetos were struck between 406 and 400 B.C.
Mint: Syracuse.
Reference: Sear-1637.
Size: 16.9 x 19.1 mm. Weight: 2.45 grams.
Grade: aVF, dark green patination (almost black in some light).
The denarius, which became the main silver coin of Rome for over four centuries, was introduced in 211 BC and produced in enormous quantity from the silver captured in the sack of Syracuse the year before.
There must have been a disagreement between Grinnell and Mehl, for the main paper money collection was consigned to Barney Bluestone, a Syracuse, NY, dealer who had been a coin dealer since about 1926 and a second-tier coin auctioneer since 1931.
The Siculo-Punic tetradrachm depicted below was struck circa 320 BC during a period in which Carthage was locked in a desperate struggle with the Greek colony of Syracuse for supremacy over the island.
Engle (born November 10, 1942 in Syracuse, New York) received the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2003, sharing the award with Clive Granger, ...
The recent donation of the 'Demareteion' decadrachm of Syracuse and four related masterpieces of early Greek numismatic art by John Whitney Walter has enhanced the importance of the ancient Greek collection.
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Coinage as an art form reached its peak in Sicily during the 5th century bc, particularly in Syracuse. Many coin dies were signed by the artists who engraved these masterpieces.
Decadrachm
Also spelled "Dekadrachm", a large silver coin issued by a few ancient Greek city states and kingdoms. The decadrachms of Syracuse are widely regarded as the most beautiful of all ancient coins.
The artist, Euainetos, exhibited such concern in his design of the quadriga on the coin from Syracuse, Sicily (Figure 5-A). Here we have horsemen no less grand than those of the great Parthenon (Figure 5-B).
dekadrachm - a ten-drachma coin, a rare denomination in Greek coinage, associated primarily with Syracuse.
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