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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Sicily| > |Syracuse| > SH75811
Syracuse, Sicily, Timoleon and Third Democracy, c. 344 - 317 B.C.
|Syracuse|, |Syracuse,| |Sicily,| |Timoleon| |and| |Third| |Democracy,| |c.| |344| |-| |317| |B.C.|, Syracuse was a colony of Corinth. Threatened by Carthage and its ally Selinos, the Syracusans asked help from their old home. Corinth sent General Timoleon, accompanied by a small group of mercenaries. Timoleon quickly put order in Syracuse' affairs and repelled Carthage in several wars, ending with a treaty which divided the island with Carthage. A Corinthian leading a Corinthian army, it is not hard to imagine why Timoleon picked the classic coin types of Corinth when new coins were struck by his new city Syracuse. They were later used by Agathokles too.
SH75811. Silver stater, SNG ANS 494, SNG ANS 496-507, SNG Cop 711, VF, scratches and corrosion, Syracuse mint, weight 8.367g, maximum diameter 22.7mm, die axis 345o, c. 344 - 335 B.C.; obverse ΣYPAKOΣION, Pegasos flying left; reverse ΣYPAKOΣION, helmeted head of Athena right; SOLD




  






REFERENCES|

de Callataÿ, F. "Le monnayage d'argent au type d'Athéna Parthénos émis au nom des Ainianes" in Obolos 7.
Houghton, A. "The Seleucid Mint of Mallus And the Cult Figure of Athena Magarsia" in Studies Mildenberg.
Imhoof-Blumer, F. "Die Flügelgestalten der Athena und Nike auf Münzen" in NZ III (1871)., pp. 1 - 50.

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