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Litra
| Issuer | Naxos (Sicily) |
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| Year | 415 BC - 403 BC |
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| Weight | 0.83 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Naxos (Sicily) |
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Naxos was the oldest Greek colony in Sicily, founded by Chalcidian settlers around 734 BC, and its coins reflect a civic identity fiercely maintained against Syracusan pressure. That pressure finally became terminal: in 403 BC, Dionysius I of Syracuse razed the city entirely, selling its population into slavery and giving the land to the Sicels. This litra falls within that final generation of Naxian coinage — issues struck while the city still existed as a political entity, before it ceased to exist at all.
The small silver litra was a Sicilian denomination rooted in indigenous weight standards rather than mainland Greek ones, a detail that distinguishes Sicilian monetary practice from the Aegean world.