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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3229014, member: 19463&quot;]I find it interesting that you can scroll through all the types and find some with the head on the obverse and some on the reverse.&nbsp; I have not heard an explanation of a reason behind this.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Area_IV_map/Syracusa_map/Syracusa1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Area_IV_map/Syracusa_map/Syracusa1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Area_IV_map/Syracusa_map/Syracusa1.html</a></p><p>This was a period of great artists.&nbsp; Perhaps there was disagreement on how these things should be done ad each workshop made their own rules.</p><p><br /></p><p>My hexas (5mm) is head on obverse as are most small coins.&nbsp; At Baltimore I saw a worn hemidrachm with head on reverse but it was $400 so it did not come home with me. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]842775[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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