The image of the Arethusa nymph that marked the Italian definitive stamps for about thirty years, was taken from a tetradrachm minted in Syracuse at the end of the IV century BCE, from a model created by the artist Euainetos. ("Italia 2009: festival internazionale della filatelia". Bruno Crevato Selvaggi & Giancarlo Morolli, Poste Italiane, Roma, 3/2008: 9)
country: Italia
year: 1953
Yvert: 648
