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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2610962, member: 19463&quot;]There are four kinds of these coins according to Favorito (decent little book: <b>Bronze Coinage of Ancient Syracuse</b>). All used to be dated to Timoleon but hoard evidence pushed that back 25 years ago.&nbsp; The problem is that the best indicators of type wear away making it hard to tell what you have.&nbsp; You can tell yours and mine once had a wreath on the helmet like Alegandron&#039;s, Z&#039;s and TIF&#039;s because that type also shows a rein on the hippocamp while there is no rein on the plain helmet coins.&nbsp; A sub variation of the wreathed type has dolphins like mine.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]571179[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The fourth type has a snake on the helmet.&nbsp; There is a beautiful one for sale on VCoins now for $850 and a couple lesser ones that show part of the snake but lack the legend difference which makes them skippable to me.&nbsp; I can not get out of my head that it would be easy to tool a snake on the helmet creating the rare type so I won&#039;t be buying one without the correct legends, too.&nbsp; Since I owned my coin 20 years before I met TIF, I can not blame her.&nbsp; I do have a desire to get the other three types (but not for $850!) and can not blame her for that either.&nbsp; Favorito points out that the wreath helmet coins tend to be heavier compared to the smaller and dumpier plane helmets.&nbsp; I suggest not buying a coin not showing at least enough of the type indicators that you can convince yourself which you have.&nbsp; The rein is last to go.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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