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Figure III-6-aeg-004. Goddess Athena wearing crested helmet decorated with serpent, palmette and vegetative tendrils. Octogonal aegis with snakes-fringe and gorgoneion (the severed head of Gorgon Medusa).

Material: Denomination
(view):
Mint: Issuer/Authority: Historical Period,
Date:
Collection:
Gold Dilitron
(obverse & reverse)
Syracuse,
Sicily
Dionysius I
(r. 405-367 BC) (?)
Middle Classical,
405-400 BC
Private

Source-Image(s): Ancient Coins Search (www.acsearch.info; © ACSearch.info and the original holders): Nomos, Auction 2, 18 May 2010, Lot 27. The full list of numismatic and exonumic images' sources is available on the Coins introductory page.

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