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| Issuer | Katane (Sicily) |
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| Year | 204 BC - 180 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Janiform conjoined busts of Serapis facing outward in opposite directions, each head surmounted by a modius, rendered in the Hellenistic style. Multiple monograms are disposed in the fields to the left and right of the janiform effigy. A dotted border encircles the design. |
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| Mint | Catana, Sicily, modern-day Catania, Italy |
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Katane spent much of the third century BC caught between Carthaginian and Roman ambitions, and its bronze coinage of this period reflects the city's uneasy accommodation with Roman dominance following the First Punic War. By the time these pieces were struck, Sicily had become Rome's first overseas province — a status formalized in 241 BC — and Katane operated under Roman oversight while retaining limited civic minting rights. The city had been refounded and repopulated multiple times, most recently under Roman auspices, giving its municipal coinage an almost administrative character.