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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2937039, member: 82322&quot;]&quot;Calciati II, 33: 14&quot; and &quot;CNS 14&quot; are the same thing; R. Calciati&#039;s <i>Corpus Nummorum Siculorum: La Monetazione di Bronzo </i>#14<i>.&nbsp; &quot;II&quot; </i>is the volume.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know what 33 is, maybe the page number.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is mine, with the right-facing head:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]714408[/ATTACH]</p><p>Syracuse, 440-425 BC, AE trias, 14mm, 2.93g</p><p>Obv: Head of Arethusa right, hair in koymbos (dolphin behind?)</p><p>Rev: Cuttle-fish or octopus</p><p>Lindgren Europe 550, Sear <i>GCV</i> 1184</p><p>ex-Clark&#039;s Ancient, list 120, March 2005, lot 60</p><p><br /></p><p>I got this dating from Sear.&nbsp; Lindgren said Second Republic, 465-425 BC, but for the left facing one said 425-4th for no obvious reason.&nbsp; Many of the Syracuse coins suffer precise yet insecure dating because we know the history of Syracuse, but the coins are assigned by &quot;style&quot; to a particular period.&nbsp; They could be from the prior or next period of Syracusan history.&nbsp; Especially for the bronze.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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