TYPE Ancient Greece, Syracuse (Sicily), under Roman rule (after 212 BC), bronze AE21 DESCRIPTION . Obv: Head of Athena left, wearing crested Corinthian helmet Rev: Nike facing, kneeling on prostrate bull, which she is about to sacrifice with a sword held aloft in her right hand REFERENCE: SG 1230, BMC 698 GRADING: AVF, part rough green patina w/ some red encrustation ORDER INFO: G2630, $68 Interesting reverse scene, with Nike in an unusually belligerent pose; typically shown in contexts beyond any carnage, as poses of driving triumphal quadrigas, crowning victorious monarchs or just plain with an innocuous palm branch, the goddess of victory is rendered here in a sacrificial act seldom seen on coinage regardless of the perpetrator.