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18: Syracuse, Decadrachm

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.