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Æ18
| Issuer | Alontion |
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| Year | 400 BC |
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| Weight | 3.79 g |
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| Reverse description | Bull butting or charging to left in a naturalistic posture, rendered with robust musculature; the ethnic legend ΑΛΟΝΤΙΝΩΝ arcs above the animal in the field, identifying the issuing community of Alontion in Greek capitals. |
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| Mintage | ND (-400) |
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Alontion was a small Sikel settlement in northeastern Sicily whose civic coinage is attested only within a narrow window, making any surviving bronze from this mint genuinely rare rather than catalogically rare. The town's independent issues effectively cease following Syracusan consolidation of the interior, which progressively absorbed smaller Sikel communities through the fourth century.