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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Syracuse |
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| Year | 413 BC - 405 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (20) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΣVPAKOΣIOИ EV |
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| Mintage | ND (413 BC - 405 BC) |
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This issue falls within one of the most turbulent decades in Syracusan history, bracketed by the catastrophic Athenian expedition of 413 BC — in which an invading force of perhaps 45,000 men was annihilated or enslaved — and the rise of Dionysius I, who seized power around 405 BC amid Carthaginian invasion from the west. The city was simultaneously celebrating a supreme military victory and bracing for the next existential threat.
The references cluster this piece within the prolific workshop output associated with the great engravers active at Syracuse in precisely this window, when die-cutting at the mint reached an artistic intensity unmatched anywhere else in the Greek world.