Tassie Coin Impression  MyI no. 672

Purchased Sep 26, 2021.
Purchased From:  Online shop IntagliosUK on Etsy.com.

Description:
Antique grand tour circa 1780 sulphur not plaster intaglio 2 shows an ancient Greek coin c. 404 BC Sicily, Syracuse. Gold 100 Litrae.

1-7/16″ wide overall.

The red sulfur Impression with gilt edged paper wrap, numbered in ink “2”.  

Below are original online images from IntagliosUK.

“Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection, Vol I”, University of Glasgow
by Hunterian Museum (University of Glasgow); MacDonald, George, 1862-1940

Publication date 1899
Topics Coins, Greek
Publisher Glasgow, J. Maclehose and Sons

Text: p391 pdf 469 of 638   Image: Pl XXVI 11

v. 1. Italy, Sicily, Macedon, Trace, and Thessaly.–v. 2. North western Greece, Central Greece, Southern Greece, and Asia Minor.–v. 3. Further Asia, Northern Africa, Western Europe

“(Greek Letters)  Female head l., wearing earring, necklace, and sphendone upon which are two stare; behind, A”

“Herakles, kneeling r. on r. knee, and strangling lion with both arms.”

“[PLATE XVI.  17.]”

From other online sources:

From:  https://www.ma-shops.com/harlanberk/item.php?id=8069

Ancient Greek c. 404 BC Sicily, Syracuse. 100 Litrae or Double Gold Decadrachm

Material: Gold

Weight: 5.78 g

Sicily, Syracuse; c. 404 BC, 100 Litrae, 5.78g. Bérend-17.7 (this coin). Obv: ΣVPAKO[ΣION] Head of Arethusa l. with hair up in sphendone, which is ornamented with star. Rx: Herakles kneeling r. strangling the Nemean lion. From a private Michigan collection. Ex Sambon-Canessa, Hotel Drouot, 27-30 June 1927, lot 884.Highest point of hair flatly struck. Virtually Mint State

 Search Google “coin Head of Arethusa l. with hair up in sphendone, which is ornamented with star. Rx: Herakles kneeling r. strangling the Nemean lion. “  to find images of several very similar coins.

2021 09 26  From:  https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/lions-ancient-coins/

Arethusa Herakles

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