Catalog
Æ10 CENTVR
| Issuer | Centuripae |
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| Year | 50 BC - 1 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Monogram occupying the central field, composed of interlaced Greek letters, likely representing an abbreviated civic or magistrate's name. The monogram is rendered in a bold, angular style characteristic of late Hellenistic Sicilian bronze coinage. The surrounding field is plain with no border inscription or decorative devices. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Centuripae, the ancient Sicilian city known to the Greeks as Kentoripa, was among the most prosperous municipia on the island under Roman administration, yet its autonomous bronze issues were brief and small in scale. This tiny piece belongs to a municipal coinage that effectively ends with the Republican period — Augustus's reorganization of Sicily curtailed local bronze production across most Sicilian cities.
RPC I 667 is catalogued with very few recorded specimens.