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Litra - Second Democracy
| Issuer | Syracuse |
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| Year | 466 BC - 460 BC |
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| Value | 1 Litra |
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| Obverse description | Diademed head of the nymph Arethusa facing right, her hair elaborately bound with a beaded diadem and arranged in finely incised parallel locks falling behind the neck. A small earring is visible at the ear. The portrait is rendered in an early Classical style of considerable refinement, with a dotted border encircling the field. The inscription ΣΥΡΑ appears partially in the field to the right of the head. |
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| Reverse description | An octopus depicted frontally and symmetrically in the center of the plain field, its eight tentacles curling outward in dynamic, naturalistic scrolls filling the flan. The body is rendered with a smooth, ovoid mantle, and the curling arms radiate in a radially balanced composition characteristic of Syracusan small silver coinage of the early Second Democracy period. The reverse is without legend or additional devices. |
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| Mintage | ND (466 BC - 460 BC) |
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