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Litra - Dionysios I
| Issuer | Syracuse |
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| Year | 405 BC - 395 BC |
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| Value | 1 Litra |
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| Obverse description | Facing head of the nymph Arethusa in three-quarter view, adorned with earring, necklace, sakkos, and ampyx bearing the letter E; a barley grain appears in the right field. The portrait is rendered in the fine engraving style characteristic of late fifth-century Syracusan coinage, with the legend ΣYP – A flanking the effigy. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΣYP – A |
| Reverse description | An octopus depicted frontally, its bulbous body centrally placed with eight sinuous tentacles radiating and curling dynamically across the field, rendered in high relief with considerable naturalistic detail. The design fills the flan entirely, with no legend or exergue, consistent with the minimalist reverse type standard for Syracusan silver litrae of this period. |
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