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Litra
| Issuer | Segesta |
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| Year | 465 BC - 450 BC |
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| Value | 1 Litra |
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| Reverse description | A hound standing left in alert posture, head raised, within a plain field. Above the hound appears a six-spoked wheel symbol in the upper left quadrant, serving as a civic badge or symbol of Segesta. The flan is irregularly shaped, characteristic of early Sicilian hammered silver coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | 表書之通り銭預置申候（We guarantee the amounts (Translation: （We guarantee the amounts)) |
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Segesta occupied an awkward political position among Sicilian cities — a Elymian settlement that consistently aligned with Carthage and Athens against the dominant Syracusan bloc. This litra falls within the period following the Sicilian campaigns of the 470s, when Segesta was consolidating its civic identity through coinage while most of the island's Greek poleis were still processing the aftermath of Gelon's victory at Himera in 480 BC. The Elymians were not Greek, yet they minted in Greek denominations and to Greek standards — a calculated assertion of equivalence.