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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Katane (Sicily) |
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| Year | 410 BC - 405 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right in three-quarter profile, rendered in fine Early Classical style with carefully articulated wavy locks bound by a laurel wreath. The youthful, beardless face displays refined features characteristic of the Sicilian engraver's tradition, with a straight nose and slightly parted lips. The ethnic legend KATANAION is disposed in the field around the portrait, with letters distributed to the right and lower field of the coin. The reverse presents a plain, slightly uneven flan typical of hammered coinage of this period. |
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| Reverse lettering | KATANAION |
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Katane's coinage of this period falls squarely within the shadow of the Athenian defeat at Syracuse in 413 BC, an event that dramatically reshuffled power across eastern Sicily. The city changed hands repeatedly in the decades that followed, and the fine engraving tradition visible in Katanean issues of this window owes much to the same circle of itinerant die-cutters — among them Herakleidas — who worked across multiple Sicilian mints simultaneously.
The Jameson reference places this among a tightly catalogued group, and the Basel concordance confirms the type's rarity outside major institutional holdings.