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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 7815700, member: 83845&quot;]Wonderful coin and great photos and graphic.</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite Sicilian tet is a bit later than the popular archaic and classic types but I think it is still a fascinating and artistic coin. It was a struck under Agathokles.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1343354[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Sicily, Syracuse </font></p><p><font size="3">Agathokles, AR Tetradrachm</font></p><p><font size="3">Dia.: 26 mm</font></p><p><font size="3">Wt.: 17.19 g</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv.: KOΡAΣ Head of Kore to right, wearing grain wreath and pendant earring.</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev.: AΓAΘOKΛEIOΣ Nike, bare to the waist, standing right, attaching armor to trophy to her right, she holds a nail in her right hand and a hammer in her left; to left, triskeles of legs running to right. </font></p><p><font size="3">Ref.: Ierardi 143/141 (O38/R95). SNG ANS 674 (same obverse die). An unrecorded die combination; toned.</font></p><p><font size="3">Ex W. F. Stoecklin (1888-1975) acquired in Taormina, Sicily, in 1931.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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