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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3229550, member: 87809&quot;]Yours are real beauties ! Mine is really in bad shape. Someone scratched it on both sides :-(((( how could anyone do something like this?</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, just sharing my pain:</p><p>AR Tetradrachm, 24 mm, 16.56 g; </p><p>Sicily, Syracuse, ca. 482 - 480 BC under the authority of the Deinomenid Tyranny</p><p>Reference: Boehringer 89 (not sure)</p><p>Obverse: (ΣVRA-KOS-I-ON) head Artemis-Arethusa r. hair in sphendone; two dolphins in lower spaces, missing at least one dolphin above </p><p>Reverse: charioteer driving walking quadriga, kentron in r. hand, reigns in left, Nike above crowning horses</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH]843030[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]843031[/ATTACH] </p><p>and this one in some better shape:</p><p>Second Democracy</p><p>AR Tetradrachm, 24 x 31 mm, 16.84 g; Sicily, Syracuse, struck ca. 450 - 440 BC </p><p>Reference: Boehringer Series XXIII, 690</p><p>Obverse: ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙ-ΟΝ, head of Arethusa right, hair in sakkos decorated with meander pattern in band; four dolphins around.</p><p>Reverse: Charioteer driving Biga to right crowned by Nike flying left above</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH]843032[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]843033[/ATTACH] </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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