Product Description
This historical set reviews two art styles in the Greek coinage of southern Italy and Sicily. The Archaic Style - 700 BCE to 480 BCE The Archaic Style depicts figures in stiff and linear fashion, faces with lifeless blank eyes, featureless smiles, and lacking realism.
1. Sybaris Silver Stater 530 BCE to 510 BCE. Founded in 720 BCE, Sybaris was the most important Greek colony in Italy until its destruction by Kroton in 520 BCE.
2. Syracuse Silver Tetradrachm. 510 BCE to 490 BCE. Founded by Corinthian colonists around 733 BCE. Syracuse became the dominant Greek state in Sicily. The Severe Style - 480 BCE to 450 BCE The Severe Style is a transitional period between the Archaic and Classical Styles. The Archaic styles features a move toward a new artistic realism in ancient coinage.
3. Rhegion Silver Tetradrachm. 466 BCE to 415 BCE. Rhegion was a Greek colony seaport located in the toe of the Italian peninsula across from Sicily.
4. Gela Silver Tetradrachm: 465 BCE to 450 BCE. Gela was an important Greek Sicilian city. In 405 BCE. the city was destroyed by the Carthaginians.
5. Syracuse Silver Demaretion Deckadrachm. ca. 479 BCE. In 480 BCE the Greeks defeated Carthage in Sicily. Historians and numismatists believe this coin celebrates Heiron¹s victory in the Pythian games at Delphi in 470 B.C. or the Olympic Games of 468 B.C. * Our Frames come with Easel to display on your Desktop or Shelf, or they can be Hung on your Wall.
* Coins are attached via removable glue dots and protected by a clear glass cover.
* Comes in a 5" x 7" display frame
* Select from Your Choice of 5 Different Frames
* All replica coins are double-sided and made of lead-free pewter
* Coins are marked "copy" on one side to conform to the Hobby Protection Act
* Made in the USA
