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4 Litrai
| Issuer | Morgantina |
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| Year | 214 BC - 213 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΗΣ ΣΙΚΕΛΙΩΤΑΝ |
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Morgantina's coinage effectively ends here. The city fell to Roman forces under Marcellus in 211 BC during the broader Sicilian campaign against Syracuse, after which the population was sold into slavery and the site given over to Spanish mercenaries who had betrayed it. This issue, struck in the final years before that destruction, represents one of the last independent monetary acts of a Sikel city that had already changed hands violently several times during the preceding century of Carthaginian and Syracusan rivalry.