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Onkia
| Issuer | Segesta (Sicily) |
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| Year | 410 BC - 400 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Mint | Segesta |
| Mintage | ND (410 BC - 400 BC) |
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Segesta's bronze coinage of this period reflects the city's precarious position during the decades-long conflict with Selinus that ultimately drew Carthage into Sicilian affairs. The Segestans appealed to Carthage around 410 BC, and the subsequent Carthaginian campaigns reshaped the island permanently — Selinus was destroyed in 409 BC, Himera shortly after. Whether these small bronzes circulated primarily before or after that intervention is difficult to establish, but the political environment that produced them was anything but stable.
The onkia denomination, representing one-twelfth of a litra in the Sicilian bronze weight standard, was the smallest practical unit in local exchange.