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ReplicaSyracusan Dekadrachm
circa 19th century AD
(silver-plated bronze)
Cast replica in the style of Kimon.Enodia
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Syracuse, Fourth Democracy289-288 BC
AE Litra (21mm, 9.57g, 7h)
O: Head of Artemis Soteira right, quiver over shoulder; ΣΩΤΕΙΡΑ before.
R: Winged thunderbolt; ΣΥΡΑΚ−ΟΣΙΩΝ above and below.
HGC 2, 1461; Calciati 138; SNG ANS 749; Sear 1207v
Scarce
ex Roma Numismatics
Somewhat scarcer than the earlier ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΟΣ−ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ types, this coin was struck during the Agathokles-mandated but short lived Fourth Democracy.Enodia
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Syracuse, Reign of Agathokles317-289 BC
AE20 (7.13g)
O: Young male head (Herakles?) right, wearing tainia; ΣYPAKOΣIΩN before.
R: Lion prowling right; club above.
HGC 2, 1465; SNG Cop 769; Lindgrin 111 527; Sear 1201v; BMC 2 389
ex Classica Antiquities
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Syracuse, Reign of Agathokles317-289 BC
AE16 (17mm, 3.71g)
O: Head of Kore (Persephone) left; ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ before, amphora behind.
R: Bull butting left; monogram above.
HGC 2, 1469; Calciati II, p. 238, 108; Sear 1195v
ex Aegean Numismatics
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Syracuse, Reign of Agathokles317-289 BC
AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.14g)
O: Wreathed head of Kore (Persephone) right, wearing pendant earring and necklace; KOPAΣ behind.
R: Nike standing right, hammer in right hand, erecting trophy; triskeles to lower left, [ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΙΟΣ] behind, all within dotted border.
Struck between 313–295 BC.
HGC 2, 1536; SNG ANS 670-76; SNG Cop 766ff; Sear 972v; BMC 388v
ex Museum Surplus
“Kore, the Girl, is so intimately associated with her mother Demeter that they are often referred to simply as the Two Goddesses or even as Demeteres. Kore’s own enigmatic name is Persephone, or Phersephone, and in Attic Pherrephatta. In Homer she is mentioned alone and also in conjunction with her husband, Hades-Aidoneus, the personification of the underworld; her Homeric epithets are venerable, agaue, and awesome, epaine. Her two aspects, girl-like daughter of the Corn Goddess and Mistress of the Dead, are linked in the myth which, though ignored in heroic epic, is responsible almost exclusively for defining the picture of Demeter. The earliest extended version is the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, but Hesiod already alludes to it in the Theogony as an ancient and well known story, and aspects of the later tradition seem to preserve very ancient material.”
~ Walter Burkert (Greek Religion, 1985)
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Syracuse, Reign of Dionysius I405-367 BC
AE Litra (19mm, 8.63g)
O: Head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helmet.
R: Hippocamp left, with curled wing.
Calciati 83,35; SNG ANS 435-46; Sear 1193vEnodia
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Syracuse, Reign of Dionysius I 405-367 BC
AE Hemilitron (18mm, 4.12g)
O: Head of Arethusa left, hair in sphendone and wearing earring and necklace; dolphin behind.
R: Wheel of four spokes; ΣΥ-ΡΑ in upper quadrants, two dolphins in lower quadrants.
HGC 2, 1479; Calciati 20; SNG ANS 404-10; Sear 1186
ex Jack H. Beymer
“The Island of Ortygia... has the fountain of Arethusa, which sends forth a river that empties immediately into the sea. People tell the mythical story that the river Arethusa is the Alpheus, which latter, they say, rises in the Peloponnesus, flows underground through the sea as far as Arethusa, and then empties thence once more into the sea.”
~ StraboEnodia
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Syracuse, Reign of Dionysius I 405-367 BC
AE Hemilitron (17.2mm, 5.95g)
O: Head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helmet; ΣΥΡΑ before.
R: Hippocamp with curled wing left, bridle trailing.
HGC 2, 1456; SNG ANS 426-33
From the H. Wallace collection; ex ECIN
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Syracuse, Reign of Dionysius I405-367 BC
AE Hemilitron (18mm, 3.05g)
O: Head of Arethusa (Artemis?) left, wearing ampyx and sphendone; laurel branch behind
R: Dolphin jumping right over scallop shell; ΣYPA between.
HGC 2, 1480; SNG ANS 417; Sear 1187
ex Forvm Auctions
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Syracuse, Reign of Dionysius I 405-367 BC (struck circa 380 BC)
Æ Drachm (32mm, 30.12g)
O: Head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helmet decorated with olive wreath; ΣYPA before.
R: Sea-star between two dolphins.
CNS II, 62-9; HGC 2, 1436; SNG ANS 455-469; Sear 1189 (Timoleon)
ex Saint Paul Antiques
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Syracuse, Reign of Hieron II275-215 BC
AE27 (17.93g)
O: Laureate head of Hieron left; plow behind.
R: Horseman prancing right, with couched spear; [IE]PΩNOΣ in ex.
HGC 2, 1547; SNG ANS 919v; SNG Cop 833; Sear 1222v; BMC 2 570; CNS 193Enodia
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Syracuse, Reign of Hieron II275-215 BC
AE21 (9.19g)
O: Head of Poseidon left, wearing tainia.
R: Ornamented trident-head between two dolphins, dividing [IE]P-ΩNOΣ below.
HGC 2, 1550; Sear 1223; BMC 2 603
ex M&R Coins
"Incessant cataracts the Thunderer pours,
And half the skies descend in sluicy showers.
The god of ocean, marching stern before,
With his huge trident wounds the trembling shore..."
~ The Iliad, Book 12 (Alexander Pope)Enodia
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Syracuse, Reign of Hiketas 288-279 BC
AE22 (22mm, 7.46g)
O: Laureate and beardless head of Zeus Hellanios right.
R: Eagle standing left on thunderbolt with wings open; A before.
HGC 2, 1449; Calciati 313,168; SNG ANS 799; Favorito 50; Sear 1212v
ex Classica Antiquities
The epithet Hellanios refers to Zeus’ aspect as ‘Bringer of the Rain’.Enodia
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Syracuse, Reign of Hiketas287-283 BC
AE23 (23mm, 11.375g, 135o)
O: Head of Kore (Persephone) left, wreathed in grain; ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ before, pellet and stalk of grain behind.
R: Nike driving biga right, whip in right hand, reigns in left; star above, Σ in exergue.
HGC 2, 1446; Calciati II, p. 259, 123; SNG ANS 760 var. (no Σ in ex.); Sear 1209
ex Forvm Ancient Coins
“Apart from Demeter, lady of the golden sword and glorious fruits, she was playing with the deep-bosomed daughters of Oceanus and gathering flowers over a soft meadow, roses and crocuses and beautiful violets, irises also and hyacinths and the narcissus which Earth made to grow at the will of Zeus and to please the Host of Many, to be a snare for the bloom-like girl -- a marvelous, radiant flower. It was a thing of awe whether for deathless gods or mortal men to see: from its root grew a hundred blooms and it smelled most sweetly, so that all wide heaven above and the whole earth and the sea's salt swell laughed for joy. And the girl was amazed and reached out with both hands to take the lovely toy; but the wide-pathed earth yawned there in the plain of Nysa, and the lord, Host of Many, with his immortal horses sprang out upon her -- the Son of Cronos, He who has many names.”
~ The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
One of my favorite coins... Enodia
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Syracuse, Reign of Hiketas288-279 BC
AE24 (24mm, 9.42g)
O: Laureate and beardless head of Zeus Hellanios left.
R: Eagle with wings open standing left on thunderbolt.
HGC 2, 1448; Sear 1211
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Syracuse, Reign of Pyrrhus278-276 BC
AE24 (23.2mm, 10.505g, 285o)
O: Head of Herakles left, clad in lion-skin headdress; club behind, ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ before.
R: Athena Promachos advancing right, hurling javelin and holding shield; wreath behind.
HGC 2, 1450; Calciati II p. 324, 177; SNG ANS 847; SNG Cop 809-814; Sear 1213
ex Forvm Ancient Coins
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Syracuse, Reign of Pyrrhus278-276 BC
Æ24 (24mm 11.98g)
O: Veiled head of Phthia left, wearing oak wreath; ΦΘΙΑΣ to left, Athena Parthenos facing behind, all within dotted border.
R: Thunderbolt; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ above, ΠΥΡΡΟΥ below, all within dotted border.
SNG ANS 835v (obverse symbol); Calciati II pg. 328, 184 Ds; Sear 1215v (obverse symbol)
Rare
ex Praefectus Coins
Phthia of Epirus was a Thessalian queen, daughter of Menon of Pharsalus and mother of Pyrrhus.
A rare coin not listed in HGC 2, SNG Cop, SNG Morcom, etc.Enodia
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Syracuse, Second Democracy440-425 BC
AE10 (Onkia) (10mm, 1.21g)
O: Head of Arethusa right, hair in koymbos; two dolphins before and behind.
R: Octopus; three pellets around.
HGC 2, 1428; SNG ANS 383; Sear 1184v
ex Pegasi NumismaticsEnodia
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Syracuse, Second Democracy415-405 BC
AE Hemilitron (16mm, 4.59g)
O: Head of Arethusa left, hair in ampyx, wearing necklace and sphendone.
R: Quadripartite incuse, eight-rayed star within incuse at center.
HGC 2, 1481; Sear 1185; CNS II, 16; SNG ANS 398
ex Aegean Numismatics
Arethusa was the Goddess of the local spring at Ortygia, the heart of Syracuse.
A special coin from a very dear friend.Enodia
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Syracuse, Sicily (Reign of Agathokles)317-289 BC
AE17 (16mm, 3.29g)
O: Head of Persephone left, wreathed in grain.
R: Bull charging right; club and ΛY above, IE (magistrate) in exergue.
HGC 2, 1498; CNS II, 200
Rare
ex Praefectus Coins
A rare variant with the bull charging right.
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Syracuse, Timoleon and the Third Democracy344-336 BC
AE Hemidrachm (23mm, 12.40g)
O: Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios right, hair short; ZEYΣEA EΛE-YΘEPIOΣ
to right.
R: Thunderbolt; eagle with closed wings standing to right; ΣYPAKOΣIΩN around.
HGC 2, 1440; Calciati II p. 167, 72; SNG ANS 477ff; SNG Cop 727; Sear 1192
ex Forvm Ancient Coins
Timoleon was cool.Enodia
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Syracuse, Timoleon and the Third Democracy344-317 BC
AE Litra (19mm, 5.34g)
O: Laureate head of Apollo left, cornucopia behind.
R: Pegasos flying left; pellet above.
HGC 2,1486; CNS 85ff; Sear 1199v (under Agathokles)
ex Lanz; ex Ken Dorney
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