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- ID: 338
Submitter: Jean-Luc
Added: 1998-03-22
SICILY. Syracuse.
Hieron II, 274-216 B.C.
AV-drachm.
Av.: Head of Persephone to l., behind, corn ear.
Rv.: Biga to r., horses galloping.
4,36 g. c. 15mm.
BoC: 21/2, 1996/7, p. 20.
FAKE – This counterfeit, which goes back to the 1960s, is coarse, with shiny fields and artificially roughened surfaces on the head.