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Drachm
| Issuer | Himera |
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| Year | 530 BC - 515 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Mint | Himera |
| Mintage | ND (530 BC - 515 BC) |
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Himera's early silver coinage predates the city's destruction by Carthage in 409 BC by over a century, placing this drachm among the first generation of coins struck in the western Greek colonies of Sicily. The city had been founded around 648 BC by settlers from Zancle, and its mint was active well before the monetary conventions of the Sicilian Greek world had fully standardized — which accounts for the considerable weight variation seen across early Himera issues.