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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2884577, member: 19463"]Better than mine!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]691975[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My Hiketas II 288-279 BC with Zeus and eagle (below) was struck over an Artemis / thunderbolt coin like yours but this one was the next period after Agathokles which we call the Democracy 289-288 BC. You can see the thunderbolt end left of the eagle but the sigma above it shows the undertype was not like yours but the Democracy</p><p> type that replaced the king's name with the city name ΣYPAK/OΣIΩN split above and below the thunderbolt. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]691973[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Two centuries before these bronze litra, Syracuse issued the same denomination in silver. These are relatively common today as well.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]691981[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2884577, member: 19463"]Better than mine! [ATTACH=full]691975[/ATTACH] My Hiketas II 288-279 BC with Zeus and eagle (below) was struck over an Artemis / thunderbolt coin like yours but this one was the next period after Agathokles which we call the Democracy 289-288 BC. You can see the thunderbolt end left of the eagle but the sigma above it shows the undertype was not like yours but the Democracy type that replaced the king's name with the city name ΣYPAK/OΣIΩN split above and below the thunderbolt. [ATTACH=full]691973[/ATTACH] Two centuries before these bronze litra, Syracuse issued the same denomination in silver. These are relatively common today as well. [ATTACH=full]691981[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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