Arethusa Heracles Ancient Greek Coin Syracuse Italy Reproduction Replica Coin - Lotoumpas.

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Silver decadrachm from the Greek city of Syracuse in Siciliy, circa 405-345 BC

from The Penn Museum

Demareteion (decadrachm) of Syracuse, Sicily c. 480-479 BC. On the coin: the head of Arethusa facing right, wearing pearl diadem with the inscription ΣV-ΡΑ-ΚΟΣ-ΙΟΝ. Four dolphins swimming clockwise.

Random Real Thoroughbred: SAIKO DRACHM

SAIKO DRACHM is a chesnut horse born in Japan in 1991. By DECADRACHM out of SAIKO HEART. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/saiko+drachm

~ Decadrachm.

Culture: Greek

Place of origin: Syracuse, Sicily

Period: Classical

Date: 405-345 B.C.

Medium: Silver

SICILY, SYRACUSE BC411 AR Decadrachm 43.38gram By Kimn SNGIII890

Greek decadrachm from Syracuse (now in Sicily), circa 405-345 BC

from The Penn Museum, Philadelphia

Damarateion (front), Gina Pardo

Decadrachm of Syracuse (V sec. BC). On the same paper are depicted the other faces (given individually on this website)

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-Damarateion-front/661665/1818763/view

Bowers on collecting: Some interesting medals from the ANA World’s Fair of Money

By Q. David Bowers

I love tokens and medals (and many other numismatic items as well). At the recent World’s Fair of Money, I poked around the bourse and bought a number of interesting things. Back at the office, I photographed each before taking the pieces to a bank safe deposit box. In the modern age of digital imaging, I can enjoy numismatic pleasures by viewing them on my computer screen. This week I show some medals I purchased from Tony Terranova.

If you would like to become involved in tokens and medals, there are three great organizations—each of which publishes a magazine and is a forum for shared information. Check their websites:

The Token and Medal Society, formed in the early 1960s, covers all specialties—from car wash and turnpike tokens of modern times to Betts medals relating to topics in colonial America. If you join now, you will get as a freebie my new book, the second edition of A Tune for a Token. This alone might be worth the cost of your membership fee!

The Civil War Token Society, formed in 1967, is devoted to its title subject and is a door opening into a wonderland of thousands of different patriotic tokens and store cards of the early 1860s. You can build a fine collection of many hundreds of different varieties for under $100 each, with some under $30. Great rarities in Mint State are apt to cost just in the hundreds of dollars.

Medal Collectors of America was formed early in the present century and is a forum for discussions and articles that often are quite academic with in-depth research.

As to my new medal purchases:

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The Ohio medal by G.H. Lovett shows a coining press in operation, which is an unusual subject. Three goddesses are in attendance—a classical touch.

The Yale medal with a chariot, two horses, and Victorian-style goddess are evocative of an ancient Syracuse decadrachm. This is an example of great early 20th-century art by Bela Lyon Pratt, who is best known as the designer of the 1908 gold quarter eagle and half eagle.

Betts 602 is one of the various medals showing the New World in relation to the Old. This one has inscriptions in the Dutch language and is dated 1782.

The illustrated map medal is new to me, listed as Eimer 11396, and I will study its features to learn more. What is now the United States was Mexico in the western part.

The token dated 1846 may have a Mormon connection and uses on the obverse the Liberty Head found on $5 gold coins from 1795 to 1807.

I have a lot of fun studying and learning about things like these!

More next week (on a different subject).

If you wish to contact me or send any inquiries, you may direct them to my e-mail [email protected].

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The rare #Demareteion (decadrachm) of Syracuse, #Sicily c. 480-479 BC. Demareteion is the name given in antiquity to a coin of #Syracuse. Via Archaeolohy & Art https://www.instagram.com/p/Bug1AuvlIVI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pd1khijlzf7x

Athens Decadrachm Greek Owl of Wisdom Athenian Owl Ancient Coin Attica Greece Reproduction.

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Syracuse. Gold 100 litrai or double decadrachm, ca. 400 BC. Obv. ΣΥΡΑΚΟ-ΣΙΩΝ. Head of Arethusa left, hair in sakkos adorned with a star, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace. Barley grain to right. Rev. [ΣΥ]ΡΑΚΟΣΙΩ[Ν]. Herakles kneeling right, strangling the Nemean Lion; barley grain on rocks below. Coll. Hunt 87 (same reverse die); SNG ANS 320 (same reverse die) & 321 (same obverse die). Gold. 5.77 g. AU Ex. NGSA auction 4, 11-12 december 2006, lot 51. It is from the same reverse dies of that of good number of signed examples on the obverse and must, logically, belong to the same striking or even to the same group. Its reverse die in particular is characterized by the presence of a grape leaf in the field and a rocky ground strewn with plant elements at the feet of Herakles. It seems even much more rare, since no other example associating these obverse and reverse dies appear to have been published. Ce superbe double décadrachme en or est attribuable à Kimon malgré l’absence de signature (KI) à l’avers, sous le grain de blé. Il est de même coin de revers que bon nombre d’exemplaires signés au droit et doit, logiquement, appartenir à la même émission voire au même groupe. Son coin de revers très particulier se caractérise par la présence d’une feuille de vigne dans le champ et d’un sol rocailleux parsemé d’éléments végétaux aux pieds d’Héraclès. Il semble même beaucoup plus rare, puisque qu’aucun autre exemplaire associant ces coins de droit et de revers ne paraît avoir été publié.

(via Numissearch.com - Ancient Coins - Greek Coins - Sicily)

PTOLEMY II Philadelphos 261BC Egypt Silver Decadrachm Greek Coin w ARSINOE

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Moneda siciliana de diez dracmas (decadrachm), 395-390 a.C. Plata. Museo RISD.

~ Ten-drachma coin (decadrachm). Culture: Greek Date: 405-400 B.C. Medium: Silver

Damarateion (front), Gina Pardo

Decadrachm of Syracuse (V sec. BC). On the same paper are depicted the other faces (given individually on this website)

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-Damarateion-front/661665/1818763/view