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Hemilitra
| Issuer | Eryx (Sicily) |
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| Year | 425 BC - 420 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Hound standing to right in profile, depicted in a lively, naturalistic style characteristic of Sicilian coinage of the late fifth century BC. The animal's musculature is rendered with considerable detail despite the diminutive flan. A pellet appears in the lower field, serving as the denomination mark for the hemilitron. Traces of a partial ethnic legend are visible along the upper periphery of the flan. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Eryx was a Elymian hilltop city on the northwestern tip of Sicily, culturally distinct from the Greek colonies dominating the island's coinage. The Elymians claimed Trojan ancestry and maintained close ties with Carthage, making their silver issues — produced in a region otherwise associated with Punic bronze — something of a numismatic outlier. At 0.31g, the hemilitra sits at the extreme low end of practical silver coinage, likely serving highly localized exchange needs rather than inter-city trade.
Campana 16 is among the scarcer die combinations in the Erycan sequence.