Himera's bronze coinage of this period was cut short with brutal finality. In 407 BC, Carthaginian forces under Hannibal Mago sacked and razed the city entirely — partly in revenge for the Carthaginian defeat at the Battle of Himera in 480 BC, a grudge carried across three generations. The surviving population was enslaved or scattered, and the mint ceased permanently. No successor city continued the coinage.
CNS 35A is among the closing issues of a mint that operated for less than two decades in bronze before the city ceased to exist.
Himera's bronze coinage of this period was cut short with brutal finality. In 407 BC, Carthaginian forces under Hannibal Mago sacked and razed the city entirely — partly in revenge for the Carthaginian defeat at the Battle of Himera in 480 BC, a grudge carried across three generations. The surviving population was enslaved or scattered, and the mint ceased permanently. No successor city continued the coinage.
CNS 35A is among the closing issues of a mint that operated for less than two decades in bronze before the city ceased to exist.