Æ Onkia

Lipara — modern Lipari, chief of the Aeolian Islands — was a Carthaginian ally whose bronze coinage circulated in a tightly constrained geographic and economic sphere. The onkia was the smallest denomination in the Sicilian bronze weight standard, nominally one-twelfth of the litra, and Lipara's issues in this fractional series are scarce enough that the Copenhagen specimen long anchored scholarly understanding of the type before additional parallels surfaced.