Litra

Katane, situated on Sicily's eastern coast at the foot of Etna, was a Chalcidian colony whose coinage history was twice interrupted by violent political rupture. This litra falls within the period before Dionysios I of Syracuse expelled the Katanaian population entirely in 403 BC, resettling the city with Campanian mercenaries and renaming it Aitna. Whatever civic identity this coin carried vanished with that deportation.

The litra as a denomination reflects the broader Sicilian silver fractional system tied to the local weight standard rather than the Attic, a distinction that mattered considerably in regional trade networks of the fifth century.