Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Syracusan Medallions and Their Engravers in the Light of Recent Finds
The medallions Of Syracuse have been the admiration of the ancient and modern world. From the Seventeenth Century onwards they have been the subject of frequent discussion on the part of numismatic writers, and the historic circumstances connected with the issue of the earliest of them, the Damareteion, whose name records the wife of gelon, l arrested the attention Of ancient writers, who, as a rule, were little prone to afford us information about numismatic matters.
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