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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 26600413, member: 10461"]Greece (Sicily, Syracuse): ca. 470-450 BC silver litra of the Second Democracy NGC Ch VF; Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5.  <a href="https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/6828625-001/NGCAncients/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/6828625-001/NGCAncients/" rel="nofollow">Cert #6828625-001</a>. Ex-Classical Numismatic Group eAuction 546, Lot 34, 13 September 2013.  Purchased raw.  Prior provenance below. CNG description: "SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Litra (12mm, 0.62 g, 10h). Struck circa 460-450 BC. Head of Arethousa right, wearing pearl tainia / Octopus. Boehringer Series XIIIa, 415–422 var. (unlisted dies); HGC 2, 1375. Old cabinet tone. VF. Ex Stack’s (5 August 2020), lot 22017, hammer $440; Spink 325 (21 June 2016), lot 84." <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/newp-syracuse-litra.407690/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/newp-syracuse-litra.407690/">Prior thread about this coin.</a> [ATTACH=full]1695107[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1695108[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1695109[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1695110[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1695111[/ATTACH] 094095[/QUOTE]