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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2262317, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m running out of coins not shown but Syracuse is a favorite place with several coins I like so here they are again:</p><p>Style wise, I love the head on this hemilitron.&nbsp; This series is common as the full litra but you don&#039;t see many of these halves with six dots on the reverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]449182[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My smallest Syracuse is this hexas or 1/6 litrawith two dots.&nbsp; It is .05g of poor condition but these things are really rare and I am happy to have even the worst one (which this may not be - a coin this size does not survive well in soil).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]449183[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone loves the big tetradrachms and mine is interesting to me because of the huge die break on the reverse (head side).&nbsp; The die was used for quite a while as they must have been rushing to cut its replacement.&nbsp; There are several of these in existence that show the die getting worse and worse.&nbsp; I wonder how long it takes to engrave a die for one of these.&nbsp; I suspect they set a record cutting the next one of these.&nbsp; Syracuse tets were always made with one set of dies at a time and when one failed, the other was used with a new mate until it failed.&nbsp; That pattern allowed Boehringer to work out the complete series of these assigning numbers to each.&nbsp; This is Boehringer 703 (V345/R481)late state.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]449184[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It has not been long since I showed this Hiketas overstruck on a Agathokles here.&nbsp; I like overstrikes when you can see the undertype well enough to ID it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]449185[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, I like this Hieron II AE27 partly because it is big and partly because it is green.&nbsp; It was one of my first big Greek bronzes. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]449186[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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