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Drachm
| Issuer | Himera |
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| Year | 530 BC - 515 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A shallow incuse square dominates the reverse, divided into four triangular sections by a raised mill-sail or pinwheel pattern, a design characteristic of early archaic Greek coinage derived from Aeginetan influence. The incuse field is further articulated by a segmented linear border framing the central device, creating a geometric and visually striking composition. The surface within the incuse retains a slightly granular texture consistent with early hammered coinage technique. No legend or inscription is present, as was typical for Himeran coinage of this early archaic period. |
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| Mint | Himera |
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Himera sat at the northern edge of Greek Sicily, positioned as a cultural and commercial buffer between the Phoenician west and the Hellenic east. These early drachms predate the city's most famous moment by decades — the Battle of Himera in 480 BC, when a Carthaginian force was routed on the same day as Salamis, an alignment of victories that the Greeks treated as providential. The city would not survive its second encounter: Carthage razed it completely in 409 BC, meaning the entire civic coinage tradition runs under a century.