lionofchaeronea:Demareteion (silver dekadrachm) issued by Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse (r. 485-478 BCE)
lionofchaeronea:Demareteion (silver dekadrachm) issued by Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse (r. 485-478 BCE) to celebrate his victory over the Carthaginians at the Battle of Himera (480 BCE). The nymph Arethusa, bearing the features of Gelon’s queen Demarete, is surrounded by dolphins, with the retrograde inscription ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΟΝ (”Of the Syracusans”). Now in the Bode-Museum, Berlin. Photo credit: Carlomorino/Wikimedia Commons. -- source link