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Stater - Agathokles
| Issuer | Syracuse |
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| Year | 317 BC - 305 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (15) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Agathokles seized power in Syracuse in 317 BC through a coup of exceptional brutality — he convened the assembly, surrounded it with mercenaries, and had thousands of political opponents massacred in a single morning. The coinage issued under his rule reflects the transition from a nominally democratic city to an outright tyranny, and later a declared monarchy when he took the title of king in 304 BC, making him the first Sicilian ruler to do so.
The Pegasi 14 attribution places this stater within a well-documented die study, though specimens linking obverse and reverse dies across the series remain relatively few.