Description: Sicily, Syracuse, Second Democracy, 466 - 405 BC. AE Hemilitron, struck circa 415-405 BC. Head of Arethusa left / Sixteen-pointed star in center of a quadripartite incuse.

Diameter: AE19 mm

Weight: 4,92 g

Grade: gVF/gVF

Attribution: CNS II, 18; SNG ANS 394-397; HGC 2

Commentary: attractive brown patina, sharp details

History: The name "Sicily" comes from the Sicles - an Italic tribe who inhabited eastern Sicily during the Iron Age.

Article Number: 003-01-03-41652