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| Issuer | Ameselon (Sicily) |
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| Year | 339 BC - 180 BC |
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| Diameter | 16 mm |
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| Reverse description | Forepart of Pegasos striding to the right, with wings prominently spread and raised above the body, rendered in a bold, slightly stylised manner characteristic of Sicilian bronze coinage. The musculature of the foreleg and chest is indicated in moderate relief. No exergual line or legend accompanies the device, the field remaining plain. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ameselon was a minor Sikel settlement in the interior of Sicily whose civic coinage is poorly documented and whose very location remains disputed among archaeologists — most place it somewhere in the Enna hinterland, but no confirmed site has been excavated. The CNAI classification reflects ongoing efforts to systematize the island's non-Greek municipal bronzes, a category long neglected in favor of the more glamorous Syracusan and Carthaginian series. The date range spanning nearly 160 years likely reflects scholarly uncertainty rather than continuous minting activity at a single authority.