Tetradrachm

This issue falls within the period when Syracuse was consolidating dominance over eastern Sicily, roughly contemporary with the city's uneasy peace following the expulsion of the Deinomenid tyranny in 466 BC and preceding the catastrophic Athenian expedition of 415–413 BC. Production at this level of technical refinement required engravers of exceptional skill — the Syracuse mint in this period employed some of the most accomplished die-cutters in the ancient world, men who sometimes signed their work, though unsigned dies from this decade remain the norm.

The Boehringer corpus remains the standard die study for this series, allowing individual specimens to be traced to specific obverse and reverse die pairings.