- ID: 935

Submitter: Jean-Luc

Added: 2001-04-06

SICILIY.
Messana.

AR-Tetradrachm, 425/421 B. C.
Av.: Biga of mules to r., crowned by Nike, in exergue, olive leaf with fruit.
Rv.: Hare to r., below, fly.
17,28 h.

Ref.: BoC 13/1, 1988, p. 4, 3, cf. Caltabiano 479 ff., cf. Rizzo, pl. 26, 1.

FAKE – a struck counterfeit. The dies are taken from an original, they are apparently not made of metal, but of a hard, plastic material.