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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Aitna |
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| Year | 344 BC - 338 BC |
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| Currency | Litra |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios facing right, rendered in fine archaic-classical style with a full, flowing beard and wreathed brow. The portrait is deeply struck with bold relief, showing carefully engraved curling locks of hair and beard. The Greek legend ΔΙΟΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΟΥ runs around the field in retrograde or divided form. The truncation of the neck is plain, and the overall style is characteristic of Sicilian bronze coinage of the mid-4th century BC. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΔΙΟΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΟΥ |
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Aitna was refounded in 338 BC by Timoleon of Corinth following his campaign to liberate Sicily from Carthaginian pressure and local tyrannies. The city had been dormant as a functioning mint for decades before this resettlement, and the bronze coinage struck in the years immediately surrounding that refoundation represents one of the shorter municipal issues on the island.
HGC 2, 73 places this type among the scarcer Sikeliot bronzes of the period.