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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientnut, post: 2481281, member: 73212&quot;]I posted my two Syracuse tetradrachms recently in the thread for Second Democracy issues. I have one other Syracuse, which was struck by Dionysios I:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]523870[/ATTACH] </p><p>Syracuse, Sicily, AV 50 Litrai / Dekadrachm, Dionysios I, 405-367 BC, struck c 400-370 BC, 2.88 g, 12.5mm, 10h. OBV: Head of young male (Anapos?) left; ΣYPAKO-ΣIΩN around / Horse prancing right on exergue line inscribed [ΣY]PAKOΣIΩ[N]; all within shallow incuse square. Bérend 1.11 (D1/R1) = Hunt IV 118 (this coin); HGC 2, 1281 (R2); SNG ANS 340; SNG Fitzwilliam 1268; Hirsch 590; de Luynes 1240; McClean 2731; Morgan 13; Rizzo pl. L, 13 = Hunt II 274 (all from the same dies). </p><p>Purchased January 6, 2016, Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. Triton XIX, Lot 2019.</p><p>From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.</p><p>Ex: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. Auction 38, June 6, 1996, lot 137.</p><p>Ex: Sternberg XXV, November 25, 1991, lot 71.</p><p>Ex: Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, Part IV, Sotheby’s, June 19, 1991, lot 118.</p><p>Ex: Hess-Leu 49, April 27, 1971, lot 68.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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