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Tetradrachm

    • Provenienza:
      Ripostiglio di Vizzini, Catania (IGCH 2219)
    • Data:
      218/217-214 BC
    • Materiali:
      Silver
    • Dimensioni:
      weight 14.05 g, diameter 23 mm
    • Collocazione:
      Syracuse, Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi”
    • Inventario:
      inv. 47335
  • Tetradrachm

Obverse: Head of Queen Philistides, in profile facing left, wearing a diadem with a veil over it; behind the head is Tyche holding a cornucopia in her left hand and a branch or patera in the right. Reverse: a quadriga galloping right, driven by Nike; above BASILISSA and in the exergue FILISTIS.