Hemilitra

Attribution of this piece remains genuinely contested. Several Sicilian mints produced fractional silver at this weight during the fifth century, and without a secure findspot or die-link to a signed series, confident assignment is impossible. The hemilitra — one-twelfth of a litra in the Sicilian reckoning — circulated alongside Greek and Punic commercial networks simultaneously, making provenance particularly difficult to establish for unattributed examples.