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Hemilitron - Timoleon
| Issuer | Syracuse |
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| Year | 344 BC - 317 BC |
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| Weight | 5.66 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios facing left, rendered in the late Classical Syracusan style with naturalistic modeling of the hair and beard. An eight-rayed star appears in the field to the right, behind the head. The effigy is set within a plain circular border, with no exergual line. The legend flanks the portrait, identifying the deity as Zeus the Liberator, a reference to Timoleon's liberation of Syracuse from tyranny. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΖΕΥΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡ-ΟΣ |
| Reverse description | A triskeles — the ancient symbol of Sicily — depicted in motion facing left, composed of three bent human legs joined at a central hub, each leg terminating in a foot with pronounced toes. The three legs radiate symmetrically in rotational arrangement, conveying dynamic movement. The ethnic legend of the Syracusans is distributed around the field in the customary segmented format. The type is characteristic of Sicilian civic bronze coinage of the Timoleontic period. |
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