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 coin engraver Euainetos, active in the last thirty years of the V century. ("Italia 2009: festival internazionale della filatelia". Bruno Crevato Selvaggi & Giancarlo Morolli, Roma, 3/2008: 9)
country: Italia
year: 1968
Yvert: 1002
