MK-WUE | Sizilien: Syrakus unter Agathokles 304-289 v. Chr.

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Sizilien: Syrakus unter Agathokles 304-289 v. Chr.
	Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität vault
Inventory no	Ka 1758 = H 6248
Obverse	Kopf der Athena mit attischem Helm und Perlenkette n. l.
Reverse	Pegasos n. l., darunter Triskeles.
Class/status	City
Authority	Agathokles of Syracuse
Date	304-289 v. Chr.
Denomination	Stater Stater Literally the resp. one unit. Hence designating the main unit within a certain currency of a Greek city or realm. The silver tetradrachm of Athens or the tridrachm of Corinth hence are also the stater within each denominational system. The main meaning though, especially in modern scholarship, is that of a denomination in gold of about 8.6 grams in the Attic standard.
	Silver ; 6,73 g; 19 mm; 7 h
Production	struck
Mint	Syracuse
Region	Sicilia
Country	Italy
Publications	B. Carroccio, Dal basileus Agatocle a Roma. Le monetazione siciliane d´età ellenistica (cronologia - iconografia - metrologia), Pelorias 10 (Messina 2004), S. 84, Nr. 32; R. Calciati, Pegasi, Band 2 (Mortara 1990), Syracusa Nr. 17.
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Hellenism
Object number	ID337
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