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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 5485091, member: 86498"]Syracuse Ar Tetradrachm 450-440 BC Obv. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right. Rv. Head of Arethusa right surrounded by four dolphins. Boehringer 571 17.39 grms 22 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1239363[/ATTACH] Last year I acquired some three tetradrachms from the mint of Syracuse and one from Himera. The coins of Greek Sicily are some of the most impressive ever struck. What is most interesting however is on both a technical as well as artistic level, the coins minted on this island are more advanced than contemporaries from the Greek mainland. I sometimes wonder that much of what we see as the beauty of Greek coins is the result of artists from other regions of the Greek world coming into contact with the coins from Sicily.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 5485091, member: 86498"]Syracuse Ar Tetradrachm 450-440 BC Obv. Charioteer driving slow quadriga right. Rv. Head of Arethusa right surrounded by four dolphins. Boehringer 571 17.39 grms 22 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1239363[/ATTACH] Last year I acquired some three tetradrachms from the mint of Syracuse and one from Himera. The coins of Greek Sicily are some of the most impressive ever struck. What is most interesting however is on both a technical as well as artistic level, the coins minted on this island are more advanced than contemporaries from the Greek mainland. I sometimes wonder that much of what we see as the beauty of Greek coins is the result of artists from other regions of the Greek world coming into contact with the coins from Sicily.[/QUOTE]
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