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| Issuer | Ameselon (Sicily) |
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| Year | 339 BC - 180 BC |
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| Currency | Litra |
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| Reverse description | A Delphic tripod cauldron depicted frontally at centre, its hemispherical bowl supported on three elegant legs with volute terminals at the feet; the vessel is surmounted by a flame finial and adorned with a fillet tied in a bow, the flowing ribbons falling symmetrically to either side. To the left of the tripod a thunderbolt is visible, and to the right a star or astral symbol, serving as secondary devices. The entire composition is enclosed within a beaded border. The field bears no inscriptions, consistent with the anepigraphic character of early Ameselon bronze issues. |
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| Mintage | ND (339 BC - 180 BC) |
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Ameselon was a small Sikel settlement in the interior of Sicily whose precise location remains debated — most scholars place it somewhere in the Enna hinterland, though no definitive archaeological site has been confirmed. The city's bronze coinage is exceptionally rare, and the issuing authority was almost certainly disrupted or absorbed during the upheavals following Timoleon's reorganization of Sicilian polities after 339 BC. The date range assigned to this type spans a full century and a half, reflecting honest uncertainty rather than established chronology.