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10 Litrai - Fifth Democracy
| Issuer | Syracuse |
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| Year | 214 BC - 212 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Persephone facing left, her hair bound with a wreath of grain ears, adorned with a single-pendant earring and a necklace; a long torch is depicted vertically in the right field. The goddess is rendered in the refined Hellenistic style characteristic of late Syracusan coinage, with finely modeled facial features and elaborately arranged hair. |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Strategos standing in three-quarter view facing the observer, head turned to the right, his right hand grasping a tall scepter; an eagle is depicted in flight to the right in the left field, above which the inscription XAP appears. The ethnic legend ΣYPAK-OΣIΩN is arranged vertically in the right field, identifying the issuing civic authority of Syracuse. |
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| Reverse lettering | XAP ΣYPAK-OΣIΩN |
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