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50 Litrai - Dionysius I
| Issuer | Syracuse |
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| Year | 405 BC - 370 BC |
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| Weight | 2.88 g |
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| Obverse description | Youthful bare head of the river-god Anapos facing left, rendered in fine archaic-transitional style with delicate modelling of the facial features. The portrait is unadorned and idealized, consistent with Syracusan artistic conventions of the early fourth century BC. Anapos, consort of the nymph Cyane, was a deity of local Sicilian significance; according to myth, both witnessed the abduction of Persephone by Hades, who transformed Cyane into a spring at the site of Syracuse and Anapos into a river flowing through southern Sicily. The field is plain, with no legend or secondary devices. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (405 BC - 370 BC) |
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