Syracuse and Sicilian Greek Coins

Use this path for Syracusan silver, signed dies, Sicilian civic issues, and older references to BMC Sicily or Evans. BMC Sicily is the broad catalogue base; Evans is the focused starting point for dekadrachms, medallions, Kimon, Euainetos, and related large silver.

Hill gives a concise historical survey of Sicilian coinage, while Weber is useful when the clue is a collection citation or a plate match rather than a civic catalogue number.

Separate interpretation, hoard evidence, and collection references

Holloway’s Damarete’s Lion brings literary traditions into the interpretation of a celebrated Syracusan issue. Use it to trace the argument linking imagery and history, rather than assuming that the conventional name of a coin establishes its date. For a later series, Ravel’s uninscribed Agathoclean Pegasi reconstructs associations from a dispersed find reported near Pachino; the recovery history is part of evaluating that evidence.

The Dewing collection catalogue adds a different kind of reference: a published collection organized by specialist contributors. A collection number identifies a recorded specimen, while a corpus or die-study number identifies its place in an author’s classification. Preserve both when a citation supplies them, and consult the source entry before treating similarly described specimens as the same coin.