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 | | Whether because of their perceived characteristics, such as beauty, wildness, ferocity, swiftness, or wisdom, or because animals played some part in the issuing city's history or makeup, many different kinds of animals were used as coin types with frequently beautiful effect. |
 | | The first coins portraying Greeks, whether living or dead, developed only after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC His own coin portraits are therefore posthumous; the coins struck for Alexander during his lifetime in which his features are merged with those of his ancestral hero Heracles cannot be counted as true portraits. |
 | | This spectacular coin may commemorate the victory of Dionysius I over the Carthaginian general Himilcon and the deliverance of Syracuse from its Punic siege in 396 BC The reverse of the coin is signed by Euaenetus, one of the most renowned coin designers of antiquity. |
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