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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 7384980, member: 110226"]Nice write-up! I especially like your crab and octopus AE's.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cities of Sicily have, without a doubt, produced some of the most artistic coins of the ancient Greek world. The workmanship and skill demonstrated on the tetradrachms, decadrachms, drachms, bronze coinage and gold coinage far exceed the die work elsewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition to the beautifully executed classical portraits, I think the very naturalistic rendering of the horses, crabs, dolphins, rabbits and other animals is unparalleled in ancients coinage, at least before the Roman Republic and Imperial periods, as exemplified by the third coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are three examples from my collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>Syracuse, tetradrachm, Deinomenid Tyranny, 480-475 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285608[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Kamarina, tetradrachm, 425-405 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285609[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Syracuse, tetradrachm, Agathokles, 317-310 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285845[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 7384980, member: 110226"]Nice write-up! I especially like your crab and octopus AE's. The cities of Sicily have, without a doubt, produced some of the most artistic coins of the ancient Greek world. The workmanship and skill demonstrated on the tetradrachms, decadrachms, drachms, bronze coinage and gold coinage far exceed the die work elsewhere. In addition to the beautifully executed classical portraits, I think the very naturalistic rendering of the horses, crabs, dolphins, rabbits and other animals is unparalleled in ancients coinage, at least before the Roman Republic and Imperial periods, as exemplified by the third coin. Here are three examples from my collection: Syracuse, tetradrachm, Deinomenid Tyranny, 480-475 BC [ATTACH=full]1285608[/ATTACH] Kamarina, tetradrachm, 425-405 BC [ATTACH=full]1285609[/ATTACH] Syracuse, tetradrachm, Agathokles, 317-310 BC [ATTACH=full]1285845[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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