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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Syracuse |
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| Year | 415 BC - 409 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | The head of the nymph Arethusa is rendered in left-facing profile, her hair bound in an ampyx decorated with a swan motif and secured by a sphendone. She wears a hook-shaped earring and a pearl necklace, with the partial engraver's signature EVKΛEI inscribed within the hair arrangement or along the ampyx. Four dolphins swim in the surrounding field, a traditional Syracusan device symbolizing the spring of Arethusa on the island of Ortygia. The portrait displays the refined, high-relief sculptural quality characteristic of Eukleidas, one of the foremost die engravers of the Syracusan school. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ / EVKΛEI |
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| Mintage | ND (415 BC - 409 BC) |
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