Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Syracuse (Sicily)
Tyrant	Dionysius I the Elder (405 BC - 367 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	405 BC - 400 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (20)
Currency	Litra
Composition	Srebro
Weight	17.4 g
Diameter	26.5 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 184279
References	SNG ANS 5# 281 Denyse Bérend; 1988. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 5. Sicily 3 (Syracuse-Siceliotes). American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , BMC Greek# 221 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , HGC 2# 1339 Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Sicily (Including Lipara) / Volume 2: Civic, Royal, Siculo-Punic, and Romano-Sicilian Issues : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. , SNG Lloyd# 1386 Peter Bagwell Purefoy, Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume II - The Lloyd Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (4 volumes). , Jameson# 839 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Gulbenkian# 285 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (publisher). A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (2 volumes). , BostonMFA# 414 Agnes Baldwin Brett; 1955. Catalogue of Greek Coins. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. , Gillet# 632, 634 . Charles Gillet Collection. , Tudeer# 63 Lauri Oskar Theodor Tudeer; 1913. Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Syrakus in der Periode der signierenden Künstler = The Tetradrachm Coinage of Syracuse in the Period of the Signing Artists. Druck von W. Pormetter, Berlin, Germany. , Bossert Coins# 63 Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert, Ute Wartenberg, Ute Wartenberg (ed.), Orla Mulholland (trans.); 2017. Coins, Artists, and Tyrants / Volume 33: Syracuse in the Time of the Peloponnesian War. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States.

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Obverse

(en) Charioteer, holding goad in his right hand and the reins in both, driving galloping chariot to left. Above, Nike flying right to crown the driver and in exergue, grain ear

Reverse

(en) Large head of Arethousa right, hair in ampyx and sphendone decorated with stars, wearing double hoop earring and necklace with six pendants; four dolphins around

Script: grecki

Lettering: ΣΥRΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ

Mint

Syracuse, Italy

Comments

(en)

Warren 382; Pozzi 621; Rizzo pl. XLVII, 10.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (405 BC - 400 BC)								$ 24 000

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