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| Issuer | Ameselon (Sicily) |
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| Year | 339 BC - 180 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | A kithara (seven-stringed lyre) depicted frontally in the field, with clearly rendered strings, a broad resonating body, and two curved arms joined by a crossbar; the instrument is shown in a schematic yet detailed style characteristic of Sicilian civic bronze coinage. No legend is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ameselon was a minor Sikel settlement in the interior of Sicily whose civic coinage exists in such small quantities that the city itself remained unlocated by scholars until relatively recently. The site is now tentatively identified near modern Mineo. Bronze issues of this type span a broad chronological window partly because the city's history under Syracusan, then Carthaginian, then Roman pressure left few datable anchors in the archaeological record.
CNS 4–5 represents some of the only physical evidence we have for Ameselon's autonomous civic life.