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SICILY, SYRACUSE
Time of Agathokles, 317-289 BC
AE14 (14.22mm, 2.14g, 7h)
Struck 305-295 BC
Obverse: Head of Athena left, wearing crested Corinthian helmet
Reverse: ΣΥΡΑ-ΚΟΣΙΩΝ above and below winged thunderbolt
References: CNS 118, Favorito 38a (this coin illustrated)
Attractive green patina. This coin is the illustrated plate coin in Emilo N. Favorito’s reference manual The Bronze Coinage of Ancient Syracuse, published in 1990 by the Society Historia Numorum. Notated as being from the collection of Favorito himself.
Collection : Greek - Hellenistic period