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Tetradrachm - Hiero I
| Issuer | Syracuse |
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| Year | 475 BC - 470 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Head of the nymph Arethusa facing right, her hair bound in a beaded tainia and adorned with a necklace, set within a circular border formed by four dolphins swimming around the periphery. The ethnic legend ΣYRAKOΣIΩN, with the characteristic archaic retrograde nu (Ν rendered as И) and Latin-form upsilon (V), is distributed in four segments between the dolphins. The portrait is rendered in the refined early Classical manner associated with the coinages of Syracuse under Hieron I. |
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| Reverse lettering | Σ-VRA-KOΣI-OИ |
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| Mint | Syracuse |
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