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Hexas
| Issuer | Rhegion (Bruttium) |
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| Year | 425 BC - 410 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Two olive leaves arranged diagonally across the field, each rendered with finely engraved central ribs and accompanied by an olive berry, together forming a stylized olive-sprig motif. The Greek letters rho (P) and eta (H), representing the abbreviation of RHEGION, are placed flanking the central olive berry between the two leaves, one letter to either side. The composition is compact and naturalistic, characteristic of the civic bronze coinage of Rhegion during the late fifth century BC. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΡΗ |
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Rhegion's bronze fractional coinage of this period emerged as the city navigated an uneasy position between the expanding power of Syracuse to the east and the Italic tribes pressing from the interior. The hexas — one-sixth of a litra — served the smallest retail transactions in a port city whose commercial life depended on precise small change.
HN Italy 2521 is among the more frequently encountered of Rhegion's bronze fractions, suggesting reasonably sustained production across the type's fifteen-year window.