Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Syracuse (Sicily)
Period	Second Democracy (465 BC - 405 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	413 BC - 405 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (20)
Currency	Litra
Composition	Srebro
Weight	17.11 g
Diameter	30 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 407910
References	HGC 2# 1326 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 Munich 5# 1051 Peter Robert Franke, Susanne Grunauer-von Hoerschelmann; 1977. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Staatliche Münzsammlung München / Heft 5. Sikelia. Gebr. Mann, Berlin, Germany. , BostonMFA# 398 Agnes Baldwin Brett; 1955. Catalogue of Greek Coins. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. , Jameson# 788 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , de Luynes# 1197–1198 Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Warren# 383 Kurt Regling; 1906. Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren. Georg Reimer, Berlin, Germany (2 volumes). , Tudeer# 2 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.

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Obverse

(en) Charioteer, holding reins in both hands, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in her extended hands.

Reverse

(en) Head of Arethousa left, wearing ampyx and pearl necklace; four dolphins and ΣYPAKO-ΣIO-И around, ΣOΣI/ΩN on ampyx.

Script: grecki

Lettering:
ΣYPAKOΣIOИ
ΣOΣIΩN

Engraver: Sosion (Σωσίων)

Mint

Syracuse, Italy

Comments

(en)

Rizzo pl. XLII, 2.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (413 BC - 405 BC)

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