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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Sicily| > |Syracuse| > GB65635
Syracuse, Sicily, Agathokles, 317 - 289 B.C.
|Syracuse|, |Syracuse,| |Sicily,| |Agathokles,| |317| |-| |289| |B.C.|, Although Agathocles was brutal in pursuit of power, afterward he was a mild and popular "tyrant." His grandest goal was to establish democracy as the dominant form of government for the world. He did not want his sons to succeed him as king and restored the Syracusan democracy on his death bed.
GB65635. Bronze AE 16, Calciati II p. 248, 119; SNG ANS 751; SNG Cop 777; BMC Sicily p. 198, 413; SGCV I 1204 var. (head left), F, Syracuse mint, weight 1.852g, maximum diameter 13.2mm, die axis 45o, c. 295 - 289 B.C.; obverse head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; reverse ΣYPAK/OΣIΩN, winged thunderbolt; rare; SOLD











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