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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shea19, post: 4904566, member: 90981&quot;]I picked up this pretty little bronze coin from Syracuse (Sicily) from a recent Naville Auction.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve been wanting to add something from Syracuse to my collection for a long time, and was very happy to come away with this one.&nbsp; It is from a 1920s Swiss collection, and as a nice bonus, it came with two old collector&#039;s tickets.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183135[/ATTACH]</p><p>Sicily, Syracuse, circa 275-269 BC, (AE 20mm., 5.45g.),&nbsp; Wreathed head of Persephone (Kore) left,; uncertain symbol behind neck./ Rev. Bull butting l.; above, club above T; IE in exergue. Calciati 191.</p><p><i>From a Swiss collection from Tessin assembled in the 1920’s</i></p><p><br /></p><p>A Syracuse tetradrachm will always be one of my &quot;Grail&quot; coins, but for now, I&#039;m more than happy to have this nice little bronze in my collection.&nbsp; I love the left-facing portrait on this, as well as the charging bull on the reverse.&nbsp; And though it may sound crazy, I actually think that the surface crack on the obverse enhances the appearance of the coin for me...something about the crack makes the coin look more &quot;ancient&quot; and gives it a little more character.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183136[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin came with these 2 old collector&#039;s tags from the 1920s.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know much else about the owner of the collection, other than that he was from Switzerland, apparently spoke Italian, and unfortunately had some terrible handwriting. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The first tag just has the printed number 225, which I assume is some sort of catalog number.&nbsp; There&#039;s also a separate tag/slip of paper which is handwritten in Italian.&nbsp; The handwritten tag also has the number 225, with the number 171 handwritten towards the bottom.&nbsp; I&#039;m not quite sure what the &quot;171&quot; means, perhaps a catalog number from an earlier owner of the coin? I don&#039;t speak Italian, but here&#039;s the best I could come up with for what the handwritten tag says (any help would be appreciated):</p><p><br /></p><p><u>&quot;Sicilia</u></p><p>[Syracuse in Italian]</p><p>Testa di Kore? [Head of Kore]</p><p>R/ Toro [bull] ____ _____</p><p>317-319 AC &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I was not able to figure out what the &quot;317-319 AC&quot; signifies.&nbsp; Any help with this tag or any other information about this collection would be greatly appreciated!</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that there were many coins from this collection sold at that Naville auction, so if anyone else on CT got one from this collection, I&#039;d love to see it.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Please post your bronzes from Syracuse or anywhere in Sicily (and of course, feel free to share your Syracuse tets if you&#039;ve got one).</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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