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Hemilitra / Hexonkia
| Issuer | Naxos (Sicily) |
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| Year | 461 BC - 430 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Mint | Naxos, Sicily |
| Mintage | ND (461 BC - 430 BC) |
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Naxos was the oldest Greek colony in Sicily, founded by Chalcidian settlers around 734 BC, and its coinage reflects a city that punched well above its size. This tiny fractional piece dates to the period following the expulsion of Ducetius and the restoration of Naxian autonomy in 461 BC — a brief window of civic revival before the city was razed by Dionysius I of Syracuse in 403 BC, its population enslaved or dispersed. The mint never reopened. Every coin from this series is therefore a terminal document of a destroyed polis.