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Æ20 MVN HENNAE
| Issuer | Henna |
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| Year | 44 BC - 36 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (44 BC - 36 BC) |
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Henna — modern Enna, perched at the geographic center of Sicily — was one of the last Sicilian cities to maintain autonomous bronze coinage under Roman administration. This issue dates to the period following Caesar's assassination, when Sicily fell under the competing grip of Sextus Pompey and the triumvirs. The city held enough residual civic status to strike in its own name, though Roman administrative pressure was steadily eroding such privileges across the island.
The municipium designation places this firmly within the Roman colonial framework, yet the coinage retains a distinctly Greek civic idiom inherited from centuries of Sikel and then Hellenistic tradition. By the 30s BC, issues like this one had largely ceased.