- ID: 80

Submitter: Federico Pastrone

Added: 1997-10-05

SYRACUSE
King Pyrrhos, 295-272 BC.

AV-Stater, 278 BC.
Av.: Helmeted head of Athena to r., behind owl.
Rv.: Nike flying to l. with wreath and trophy, to.l. thunderbolt.
8,61 g.

Ref.: cf. NNM 149 (1962), 28, pl.7,8. Coll. Kunstfreund no.240.

BoC:  21/1, 1996, p.2.

FAKE – Quite dangerous, a 19th century cast. The fields are too flat and the dots of the border too thin.