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| Issuer | Tyndaris (Sicily) |
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| Year | 254 BC - 211 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | A pendulous bunch of grapes occupying the central field, rendered in high relief with individual spherical berries clearly articulated, suspended from a short stalk with a leaf. The ethnic legend TYNΔAPITAN is disposed around the bunch in the field, reading clockwise, in Greek characters. The whole is set within a plain border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tyndaris was founded in 396 BC by Dionysius I of Syracuse as a military colony, settled largely by Messenian exiles and surviving troops from the disastrous Carthaginian siege of Himera. The city's bronze coinage of this period was struck under Syracusan political orbit but maintained its own civic identity — a careful balancing act during the turbulent decades spanning the Pyrrhic War and the First Punic War, when Sicily became the first major theater of Roman military expansion outside the Italian peninsula. Tyndaris itself surrendered to Rome around 254 BC, and civic bronze issues continued under the new order until Roman administrative consolidation effectively ended autonomous local minting.