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Litra
| Issuer | Katane |
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| Year | 464 BC - 450 BC |
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| Value | 1 Litra |
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| Obverse description | Bearded head of Silenos facing right, rendered in archaic Sicilian style with bold, deeply cut features. The figure is bald, with a prominent forehead and a full, carefully detailed beard rendered in parallel incised lines. The head is set within a beaded border encircling the flan. The modelling exhibits the characteristic vigorous naturalism of early Sicilian coinage. |
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| Reverse description | A winged thunderbolt depicted frontally at centre, with volutes flanking the upper shaft and radiating feathered wings splaying outward; below the volutes, a gorytos (bow-and-arrow case) is shown in profile. The ethnic legend KAT ANE is divided across the field, with KAT to the left and ANE to the right, all enclosed within a beaded border. The composition is a characteristic emblem of Zeus as patron deity, reflecting Katane's civic iconography of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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