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Early Syracuse Coin

Early Syracuse Coin

‎This silver Greek tetradrachma, minted about 480 B.C. in Syracuse, Sicily, depicts a charioteer and four-horse team called a “tethrippon” (obverse). Nike, goddess of victory, flies above and a lion runs below. Four dolphins swim around the city’s Greek name, “SURAKOSION,” and the laurelled head of Arethusa, a sea nymph associated with Ortygia Island near Syracuse (reverse). Corinthian settlers established the colony that became Syracuse on Ortygia in about 734 B.C. Paul stopped at Syracuse on his trip from Caesarea Maritima to Rome (Acts 28:12).
‎Ps 20:7, Ps 68:17, Acts 8:28–39, Acts 28:12, 1 Cor 15:57

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