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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 7648012, member: 44316&quot;][ATTACH=full]1314951[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>After Italy was reconquered for the empire under Justinian, Syracuse, on the southeast coast of Sicily, became a Roman mint. Under Heraclius (610-641) it overstruck many earlier coins with small dies depicting Heraclius on the obverse and SCL for Sicily on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Heraclius, 610-641, overstruck at Syracuse on a follis of Justinian from before the reform of Justinian in 538. (So, the coin was at least 72 years old when it was restruck.)</p><p>His bust with a monogram for Heraclius to the right.</p><p>SCL with a bar above, abbreviating Sicily.</p><p>34-31 mm. 15.70 grams (which is the size of the undertype)</p><p><br /></p><p>Sear 882 over Sear 161.</p><p><br /></p><p>Syracuse also struck coins with nearly full-flan dies, but almost all are overstruck on previous coins, as opposed to struck on newly-prepared blank flans. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1314964[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">29-24 mm. 5.32 grams.</font></p><p><font size="5">Heraclius and son/Heraclian monogram with SC (for Sicily)</font></p><p><font size="5">DOC II.I 243, says &quot;imposed at Constantinople for coins intended for Sicily&quot; [note 243, p. 356 and pp.237-8]</font></p><p><font size="5">I have not identified the undertype.</font></p><p><font size="5">Sear 884</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Countermark from 632-641</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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