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Dekadrachm - Hicetas
| Issuer | Syracuse (Sicily) |
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| Year | 279 BC - 278 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Hicetas ruled Syracuse as tyrant during one of the city's most precarious moments — caught between Carthaginian pressure from the west and the looming arrival of Pyrrhus of Epirus, whom Hicetas himself had initially invited to Sicily. This gold dekadrachm belongs to an emergency or prestige issue of extraordinary rarity, almost certainly struck to fund military operations or diplomatic overtures during that narrow two-year window before Pyrrhus displaced Hicetan authority entirely. The blanks across all major reference catalogs — BMC, SNG ANS, Jameson, Gulbenkian — confirm how few specimens have passed through documented collections.