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Hemilitron
| Issuer | Herbessos |
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| Year | 325 BC - 310 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | EPBHΣΣOINΩN |
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Herbessos was a Sikel settlement in the interior of Sicily whose precise location remains disputed — most scholars place it near the modern town of Ramacca in the Catania hinterland. The city issued bronze coinage during a window of intense political turbulence, squeezed between Syracusan expansionism under Timoleon and the later campaigns of Agathokles. That Herbessos managed any autonomous coinage at all during this period reflects a brief interval of self-governance that would not last.
The hemilitron denomination follows the Sicilian bronze system established on a litra base, with the hemilitron representing half that unit.