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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Katane (Sicily) |
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| Year | 405 BC - 402 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A bull standing to the right, head lowered and turned back toward a frog crouching beneath its forelegs, a characteristic motif of Katanean coinage alluding to the marshy environs of the Amenanos river. The legend KATANAION is inscribed in Greek letters across the upper field. A ground line is indicated beneath the bull's hooves, and the composition fills the flan with assured, compact rendering typical of Sicilian mint engravers of the early fourth century BC. |
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| Mint | Catana, Sicily, modern-day Catania, Italy |
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Katane's independence as a minting authority was effectively finished by 403 BC, when Dionysios I of Syracuse seized the city and deported its entire population to Syracuse, resettling the site with Campanian mercenaries. This small silver issue falls squarely within that terminal window — struck during the city's last years as a functioning autonomous polis before Dionysian consolidation erased it from the map of independent Sicilian coinage.