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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3199318, member: 87809&quot;]This Athena Promachos is the Macedonian Athena Alkis, a type which first occurs on coins struck in Egypt by Ptolemy Soter for Alexander, the son of Roxana. Then&nbsp; on silver coins of Pyrrhos struck during his Italian and Sicilian campaigns, on these bronze Syracusan coins, on the coins of Antigonus Gonatas, 277-239 BC, and on those of Philip V, 220-179 BC. </p><p>On this one Athena is holding a spear in r. hand:</p><p>Time of Pyrrhos. </p><p>21 mm, 9.39 g; Syracuse, 278 - 276 BC</p><p>Ref.: Calciati II pg. 321, 176; SNG Copenhagen 813;</p><p>Obverse: Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin</p><p>Reverse: ΣΥΡΑ-ΚΟΣΙΩΝ. Pallas Promachos (Athena) wearing long chiton with diploidion, and chlamys over shoulders, advancing right; she holds spear in raised r., and shield on outstretched l. arm</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]827551[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]827552[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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