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| Issuer | Alontion |
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| Year | 400 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male head facing right, rendered in archaic Sicilian style with pronounced facial features including a broad nose and full beard; the hair is depicted in thick, roughly textured locks swept back from the forehead. The portrait fills the flan with bold, high relief typical of early Siculo-Punic bronze coinage. The field is otherwise plain, with no visible legend or border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Alontion was a small Sikel settlement in the northeastern interior of Sicily, and its bronze coinage is among the scarcest produced by any indigenous community on the island. The CNS (Corpus Nummorum Siculorum) catalogues only a handful of types from this mint, reflecting an output constrained by both the town's modest size and its precarious position during the prolonged Carthaginian and Syracusan contests over Sicily in the late fifth and early fourth centuries.
CNS#7 sits at the edge of the documented sequence for this issuer, with very few specimens recorded in major collections.