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Litra
| Issuer | Leontini |
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| Year | 466 BC - 460 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Artemis facing right, wearing a stephane and earring, her hair elaborately arranged in layered curls. A quiver and arrow tips are visible over her shoulder, rendered in an archaic to early Classical Sicilian style. The bust is set within a beaded border encircling the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (466 BC - 460 BC) |
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Leontini struck this litra in the decade following the expulsion of Hieron I's garrison, when the city reasserted its independence from Syracusan control after 476 BC. The emission belongs to a period of intense civic self-assertion among the Chalcidian colonies of eastern Sicily, each minting on their own authority as Syracusan hegemony temporarily contracted. Leontini's silver issues of this period are among the smallest and most technically demanding of Sicilian archaic coinage — the dies cut with a precision disproportionate to the coin's mass.