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Hexas
| Issuer | Adranon |
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| Year | 339 BC - 336 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A kithara (lyre) depicted facing, with a broad rectangular soundbox and two elegant curved arms terminating in swan-head volutes at the top. The instrument's multiple strings are rendered in fine parallel lines between the arms. The design is boldly struck and fills the flan, with no visible legend; the field is otherwise plain. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΔΡΑΝΙΤΩΝ |
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Adranon — modern Adrano, on the southwestern slope of Etna — was a city founded by Dionysios I of Syracuse around 400 BC, deliberately positioned to control routes through the interior of Sicily. Its civic coinage is sparse, and the hexas denomination in bronze represents one of the smaller fractional units in the Sicilian weight system, equal to two onkiai. This issue falls within the period of Timoleon's reorganization of Sicilian Greek cities following his campaign against Carthaginian dominance, a moment when many interior Sikel and Greek settlements briefly reasserted municipal identity through coin production.