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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 7812258, member: 51347&quot;]<b>HemiDrachm</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1342327[/ATTACH]</p><p>SICILY. Syracuse. </p><p>Timoleon and the Third Democracy (344-317 BC). </p><p>AE Hemidrachm, </p><p>23mm, 17.2g</p><p>Obv: ZEΥΣ ΕΛΕΘΥΕPΙΟΣ; Laureate head right.</p><p>Rev: ΣYPAKOΣIΩN; Thunderbolt, barley grain to right.</p><p>Reference: SNG ANS 472 ff.</p><p><br /></p><p>Timoleon was one of the more important tyrants of Sicily; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timoleon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timoleon" rel="nofollow">read about him here</a>. If you can find one of these large, chunky hemidrachms with strong details and a lovely patina, man have you got a coin in your hand! This one is superb - the pics are a fair representation so I’ll leave it at that. There is another variety with thunderbolt and bird - the barley grain is the rare one. The stubs from the flan’s casting sprues were sometimes not filed away completely - this coin is a great example of that. What a satisfying rock of a coin with fascinating history.</p><p><i>Ex: [USER=42773]@John Anthony[/USER] </i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #b30000">Next: Another HemiDrachm</span></i></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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