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Litra
| Issuer | Ziz (Punic Sicily) |
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| Year | 405 BC - 380 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Punic |
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| Mintage | ND (405 BC - 380 BC) - Legend below ND (405 BC - 380 BC) - Also Jenkins, Punic pl. 24, 12 - Legend above |
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Ziz — the Punic name for Panormus, modern Palermo — began producing its own silver coinage in the aftermath of the catastrophic Carthaginian campaign of 405 BC, which devastated the Greek cities of Akragas, Gela, and Himera and left western Sicily firmly under Phoenician control. These small litrai represent one of the earliest indigenous monetary issues from a Punic Sicilian city, struck to facilitate trade and pay troops in a region still smoldering from that conquest.
The Jenkins P1 classification places this among the earliest die groupings of the series.