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Didrachm - The Gamoroi
| Issuer | Syracuse |
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| Year | 510 BC - 490 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Syracuse |
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The Gamoroi — Syracuse's landowning aristocratic class — controlled the city's early mint and almost certainly directed the iconographic program of its coinage. Their grip on power ended abruptly around 491 BC when a democratic uprising, led by the lower-class Killichiroi, drove them into exile at Casmene. Gelon of Gela restored them to Syracuse in 485 BC, a political reversal that reshaped the entire Sicilian Greek world.
Boehringer's sequencing places this type among the earliest Syracusan didrachms, predating the more developed die-work of the 480s. The obverse punches show progressive refinement across the series — this reference number sits in the transitional phase.