CoinWeek: The Dekadrachm of Syracusa - Quarter Million Dollar Ancient Coin
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- CoinWeek Ancients writer Mike Markowitz joins David Guest at the New York International Numismatic Convention to discuss one of the most famous and important coin in the history of the world, The Dekadrachm of Syracusa. This silver coin, worth more than a month's salary of a soldier, at the time it was struck, today sells fore more than a quarter million dollars.
It is one of the most distinctive ancient coins ever struck and features a beautiful portrait Arethusa surrounded by dolphins. On the reverse, a quadriga driven by a chariot driver.
This is but one of the many beautiful ancient coins that you will see on display at New York city's most historic and well-attended coin show.
Beautiful ancient, Charles please post more videos from the New York International Numismatic Convention. Thank you
Thank you for the comment. We have at least 15 videos in production at the moment and we will post videos that we shot at FUN, the NYINC, and Berlin... On Monday, I travel to Long Beach, where I expect to get several additional segments recorded. Lots great content coming to this channel over the course of the next month.
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Guy's, I've got an even finer example of this coin, can you help me, I don't know what I should do...?
Terrific ancient! Amazing Artwork! Great coin to feature. +1 and shared!
Nice to get the chance to see this beauty of a coin...although I will never own one. I do have a Syracusan Tetradrachm from C. 460 BC however...more archaic in style...and it set me back a bit financially. But very rewarding to look at, in a way that more modern coinage is not. Think of all that history!
A legendary coin ! first time i see one in vid. Thank you !
This coin is incredible. Another thing that makes this coin so desirable is Arethusa. She's extremely pretty in this rendition. I have a 19th century electroplate by Robert Ready and sons of this coin.
"Chariot racing was the NASCAR of the racing world" lol. Nice coin, though. Thanks so much for the video!
Very nice. Wish you could have had better audio.
We agree. Very loud room.
Two questions
1. How are you able to get ancient coins legally as a coin dealer?
2. When we use the term ancient, what do we mean? When does it shift from ancient to modern in the coin world?
Chris Garner ancient = Before the fall of rome (476 AD ) i think
@@vacciniumaugustifolium1420 In theory anything before 1453 C.E. (Fall of the Roman Empire in the East)
1. This is a real good and fair question. Since Syracusan coins did not travel outside Sicily (coin hoards with sicilian coins are known in Turkey, but they're really rare) and the total specimen known are from the Italian island, they were taken from the field illegally. Since the Ancient Manufact Protection Act was issued in 1939, coins taken before that date could have been sold by sicilian land owners legally, so we know that most of the specimens in coin galleries such Paris, London, Berlin, are the result of acquisitions mostly taken in XIX century and the first half of XX century. BUT wer know about a huge amount of coins taken illegally from Italy in the second half of XIX century and now sold in auctions and owned by anonimous people. They should be taken with force since they are under italian heritage protection law. That's it. It is funny to see that the American Numismatic Society has a lot of specimens arrived in New York at the end of the IIWW... just to say. It is really sad to see this wonderful objects in commerce, they're really important manufacts. USA - and EU too, sometimes - are too much ignorant to do not understand the big failure of ancient manufact market. But, ehy, that's America and we have money, so we can piss on the head of the rest of the world.
2. With the term Ancient Era usually we archaeologist imply the human history from -4000 to the fall of the Roman Empire, +476, or to the death of Iustinian I in Costantinople, +565, or to the birth of the lombard kingdom in Italy, +568, but there's not agreement, since most of the cultural elements taken in account to define a historical period can be seen and judged in so many different ways to have a certain definition of the start and end of the so called Ancient Era... but let's say that for me "ancient" could be used as adjective for something that goes back beyond the third/fourth generation. For example... Ford T model is not ancient, but John Wilkes Booth's Derringer yes! The concept of ancient is really a western construction... in oriental culture there's not the same meaning of "ancient" as we intend it.
Beautiful coin, fascinating history
Very nice and thank you for sharing!
really nice coin
My right ear enjoyed this
Nice coin. If it could only speak imagine the stories it would tell!
The one horseman in the head part of this I have a necklace like this on the front side Sicily Syracuse
Please put the microphones closer next time.
I have one Dekadrachm of Syracusa, i dont know if it is real but it sure looks like it!!
how can I find out if it is the real thing??, can you please advise?
I want to purchase it ..
Manuel, Did you ever find out more about the coin ?
I also have one of them, maybe I can help you. ..👍
Hey, I’ve stumbled across the same thing, did you get an answer to this question?
Hi I have the Sam coin but is smallest it like 5 cent pics
It that worth anything
Far too much background noise can't hear you
Should you handling it with your bare hands?
sure, clean bare hands. It's survived al this time...
There were many more minted... The QUESTION IS CAN U FIND THEM
Here's a shovel and a metal detector. They're somewhere in the ground.
Nice replica ..
The one horseman in the head part of this I have a necklace like this on the front side Sicily Syracuse