100 Litrai - Dionysios I
Features
| Issuer |
Syracuse
(Sicily)  |
|---|---|
| Tyrant |
Dionysius I the Elder (405 BC - 367 BC)
|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 400 BC - 370 BC |
| Value | 100 Litrai |
| Currency | Litra |
| Composition | Gold |
| Weight | 5.80 g |
| Diameter | 14 mm |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Hammered |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 378134 |
| References | SNG ANS 5# 336-338 Denyse Bérend; 1988. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 5. Sicily 3 (Syracuse-Siceliotes). American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , HGC 2# 1275 Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Sicily (Including Lipara) / Volume 2: Civic, Royal, Siculo-Punic, and Romano-Sicilian Issues : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. Edward George Spencer-Churchill; 1931. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 1.1. The Collection of Capt. E.G. Spencer-Churchill, M.C., of Northwick Park: The Salting Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (publisher). A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (2 volumes). Leo Mildenberg (ed.), Silvia Mani Hurter (ed.); 1985. The Dewing Collection of Greek Coins. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States (2 volumes). Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes).. Charles Gillet Collection. , Du Chastel# 121 François de Callataÿ, Johan van Heesch; 1999. Greek and Roman Coins from the Du Chastel Collection: Coin Cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom. |
Obverse
Head of Arethusa left, hair bound in saccos decorated with two stars, wearing triple-pendant earring and beaded necklace; eight-pointed star behind.
Script: Greek
Lettering: ΣYPAKOΣIΩ
Reverse
Heracles kneeling right, strangling the Nemean lion.
Mint
Syracuse, ItalyComments
Bérend 38; Rizzo pl. LIII, 11; Kunstfreund 128.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| ND (400 BC - 370 BC) | 
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$ 17 000 | $ 38 000 | ||||||||||||
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