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| Issuer | Nesos |
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| Year | 300 BC - 200 BC |
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| Reference(s) | BMC Greek#9, SNG France#1336 |
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| Reverse description | A lyre depicted in the central field, shown frontally with its characteristic rectangular body and upright arms supporting the crossbar; the strings are indicated in relief between the arms. To the left of the lyre, the partial Greek legend NAΣI is inscribed vertically in the field, representing an abbreviated ethnic of the issuing community of Nesos. The reverse field is otherwise plain, with no additional symbols or exergual markings. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Nesos — Greek for "island" — was a minor settlement on the island of Sicily, likely near the Helorus River in the southeastern corner of the island. It struck bronze coinage only briefly, and the surviving corpus is small enough that individual examples can be traced across major collections. The SNG France reference here points to the Bibliothèque nationale de France holding, one of the few institutional benchmarks for attributing this type with confidence.