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Hemilitron
| Issuer | Syracuse |
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| Year | 415 BC - 405 BC |
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| Currency | Litra |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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This issue falls within one of the most turbulent decades in Syracusan history — the period opened with Athens launching its catastrophic Sicilian Expedition in 415 BC, a naval and land campaign of staggering ambition that ended in 413 BC with the near-total destruction of the Athenian force in the quarries of Syracuse. The city emerged from that victory vastly more confident, only to face sustained Carthaginian pressure from 409 BC onward as Hannibal Mago's forces systematically destroyed Selinus, Himera, and Akragas.
Small fractional silver like this hemilitron circulated precisely because bronze coinage was not yet fully established in Syracuse — Dionysios I would later push that transition.