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Æ15
| Issuer | Kefra |
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| Year | 406 BC - 397 BC |
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| Diameter | 15.0 mm |
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| Obverse description | Youthful head of Herakles facing right, clad in the Nemean lion's skin headdress, the scalp knotted beneath the chin with forepaws visible at the neck. The facial features are rendered in a bold archaic-to-early-classical Sicilian style, with the mane of the lion's skin framing the hero's head. The flan is irregular, typical of early Sicilian bronze coinage of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kefra was a minor inland Sikel settlement in central Sicily, and its autonomous bronze coinage — produced during a narrow window in the late fifth and early fourth centuries — was almost certainly cut short by the Carthaginian military campaigns that devastated much of the island's interior between 409 and 397 BC. The CNS series for Sikel bronzes remains one of the more contested areas of Sicilian numismatics, with attribution debates ongoing for several types.