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The most famous coin of antiquity, the decadrachm of Syracuse,
struck between 400 and 395 BC. The die is signed EU-AI-NE under
the lower dolphin by the master Euainetos who lived at the court
of Dionysius I. The profile of the Kore Persephone with a wreath
of wheat leaves had a broad effect in the Western and the Eastern
world of the time. It made an impression on the Carthaginians as
well as Greeks.
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