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Æ15
| Issuer | Katane |
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| Year | 300 BC - 200 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and wreathed head of Apollo facing right, rendered in archaic Sicilian style with curling locks framing the face. The portrait displays the youthful idealized features characteristic of late Classical to early Hellenistic Sicilian coinage, with the wreath visible atop the head. The flan is slightly irregular, consistent with struck bronze issues of this period and region. |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Isis oriented to the right, depicted in long garments and holding a bird in the extended hand, reflecting the syncretistic religious iconography common in Hellenistic Sicily. The ethnic legend KATA-NAIΩN is divided across the field, flanking the central figure. The style and epigraphy are consistent with Katanian municipal bronze issues of the 3rd century BC. |
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Katane, the Sicilian city refounded by Timoleon in the 330s BC after decades of Campanian mercenary occupation under the name Aitna, resumed civic coinage as part of a broader restoration of Greek urban life across the island. This small bronze belongs to that recovery period. The SNG Copenhagen 193 reference places it within a well-documented but modestly sized civic bronze series, the kind of fiduciary small change that greased local market transactions rather than interstate commerce.