Hemilitron

Akragas in this period was among the wealthiest poleis in the Greek world, its prosperity built on olive oil exports and a position dominating the southern Sicilian coast. Bronze coinage here served local transactional needs that silver fractions couldn't efficiently fill. The hemilitron — half a litra — was a Siculo-Greek denomination with no direct Athenian or Corinthian equivalent, reflecting a monetary reckoning system native to Sicily rather than imported from the mainland.

The city was sacked and largely destroyed by Carthage in 406 BC, which provides the hard terminus for this issue. Coins struck in the final years before that destruction were never retrieved by populations that simply didn't survive to reclaim them.