Description

Greek Province.

Sicily, Syracuse.

King Pyrrhus of Epirus.

AE,  23mm, 11.30g. (Hammered bronze).

Obverse: Head of Herakles left, wearing lion's skin headdress.

Obverse legend: ΣYPAKOΣIΩN

Reverse: Athena Promachos advancing right, holding a shieldin her left hans and a thunderbolt in her right hand.

Grade: gVF -aEF.

References: Calciati 177, SNG Morcom 798.

Providence: New York sale V, 2003, 70.