Tetradrachm - Dionysius I

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	17.09 g
Diameter	24.5 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 408174
References	AMB Basel# 471 Herbert Adolph Cahn, Leo Mildenberg, Roberto Russo, Hans Voegtli; 1988. Griechische Münzen aus Grossgriechenland und Sizilien. Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel, Switzerland. , BostonMFA# 415 Agnes Baldwin Brett; 1955. Catalogue of Greek Coins. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. , Gulbenkian# 288 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (publisher). A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (2 volumes). , Buceti# 499 Giuseppe Buceti; 2010. Monete, storia e topografia della Sicilia greca. Plectica, Messina, Italy. , Tudeer# 69 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# 69 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 the reins with both hands and a kentron in his right, driving a quadriga rushing to left, about to turn, the head of the second horse from the left turned back to right and with a loose and dangling rein; above, Nike flying right to crown the driver; below the hind hooves of the near horse, a lost chariot wheel; in the exergue, grain ear to left.

Reverse

(en) Head of Arethusa to left, wearing ampyx and sphendone with a zig-zag pattern lower border, a double-hook earring and a simple necklace with four pearls; in the field to left, two dolphins swimming downwards to right; behind Arethusa's head to right, two dolphins swimming downwards, the upper turned outwards and the lower inwards.

Script: grecki

Lettering: ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ

Mint

Syracuse, Italy

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

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