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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3755041, member: 87809&quot;]Similar one but with a different reverse legend:</p><p>Æ Litra</p><p>21 mm, 9.39 g; </p><p>Sicily, Syracuse, 278 - 276 BC</p><p>SNG ANS 845-6; HGC 2, 1450-1451; </p><p>Ob.: Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin</p><p>Rev.: ΣΥΡΑ-ΚΟΣΙΩΝ. Pallas Promachos (Athena) wearing long chiton with diploidion, and chlamys over shoulders, advancing right; she holds spear in raised r., and shield on outstretched l. arm</p><p><br /></p><p>This Athena Promachos is the Macedonian Athena Alkis, a type which first occurs on coins struck by Ptolemy Soter in Egypt for Alexander the son of Roxana, next on silver coins of Pyrrhus struck during his Italian and Sicilian campaigns and on these bronze Syracusan coins, and again on the coins of Antigonus Gonatas, 277-239 BC and on those of Philip V, 220-179 BC. </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1006557[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1006559[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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