Tetradrachm

This issue falls within the earliest phase of Syracuse's democratic period, following the expulsion of Thrasybulus in 466 BC — the last of the Deinomenid tyrants. The transition from tyranny to democracy coincided with a deliberate shift in coin production, and the dies from this window show the Syracusan mint working through that stylistic evolution with unusual speed. Boehringer's sequencing places this type precisely in that transitional cluster.

The specific Boehringer 499 attribution is worth noting. It sits in a tightly documented die study that remains the authoritative sequence for early Syracusan tetradrachms of this generation.