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Image files are licensed Public Domain Mark 1.0. Athen, KIKPE Foundation, ID749. Photographs by Kostas Manolis.

SNG KIKPE I 0250 Syracuse
Inventory no: SNG KIKPE I 250

Class/status: Ancient Ruler's issue, Authority: Pyrrhos I. von Epiros (319-272 v. Chr.)

Date: 278-276 BC

Country: Italy
Mint: Syracuse (Sicilia)

Obverse: Corn-wreathed head of Kore r.; to l. rose.
Reverse: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΥΡΡΟ[Υ] [to r. and to l.]. Demeter seated r. on throne, holding in her r. long sceptre and in her l. stalk of corn.

Production: struck

Coin, Bronze, 8,90 g, 22 mm, 5 h

Publications: SNG KIKPE I 250; CNS, II, 331, no. 185 Ds 51/3; Carroccio 2004, 83, pl. XXVII.49.

Provenance: J. Elsen, Vente publique 72 (14.12.2002), lot 131.

Time of Pyrrhos, king of Epirus.

Photographer Obverse: Kostas Manolis
Photographer Reverse: Kostas Manolis

Athen, KIKPE Foundation
Accession KNC03A073 Year of access 2003 Zugangsart Schenkung

Recommended Quotation: KIKPE, SNG KIKPE I 250

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