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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3094572, member: 87809&quot;]Thanks dougsmit for your very interesting explanation. 500 reverse dies!! Just amazing!&nbsp; (thanks for clarifying that the head is the reverse). </p><p><br /></p><p>Both coins you are showing seem to me real beauties and interesting, each in its own way. Maybe an expert would say differently.. </p><p>Here is one with a very worn and blackened obverse but what I think is a lovely reverse. What could possibly have happened to the obverse? Guess an expert would say it is a bad coin.</p><p>SICILY, Syracuse, Tetradrachm, struck ca. 430 - 420 BC; Second Democracy (466-405 BC); 24 mm, 17.05 g</p><p>Obverse: Charioteer driving Biga to right crowned by Nike flying r.</p><p>Reverse:&nbsp; bust of Arethusa r., whorl earring, and band wound four times around head and hair, ΣΥΡΑ[ΚΟ]ΣΙ[ΟΝ], three dolphins, one behind the neck, two in front; </p><p><br /></p><p>Sear 932v; BMC Sicily, #122; not sure if it is Boehringer 675 (V338/R462) or Boehringer 667</p><p><br /></p><p>A similar one (same reference) in a much better condition, with the same hair style and face, 24 x 28 mm, 17.19 g</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]781644[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]781645[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]781647[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]781648[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I find Arethusa&#039;s expression lovelier on the &quot;bad&quot; coin <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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