BronzeÆ15

Lopadusa — the ancient name for the island now called Lampedusa — issued coinage during a narrow window of the fourth century BC, almost certainly tied to its position along Phoenician trade routes between Carthage and Sicily. The island's autonomous bronze issues are among the rarest of all Sicilian-adjacent series; surviving specimens appear almost exclusively in institutional collections, with CNS#4 and the Copenhagen example representing the thin documentary record for this type.