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| Issuer | Kalakte |
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| Year | 240 BC - 210 BC |
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| Currency | Litra |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena in right profile, wearing a Corinthian helmet with raised crest rendered in fine engraved strokes. The facial features are delicately modelled in the Sicilian Greek style, with a pronounced cheek guard partially obscuring the face. The bare neck and chin are clearly delineated, and the field is otherwise plain. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Kalakte was a minor Sikel settlement on the northern coast of Sicily, and its civic coinage is among the least documented in the island's complex numismatic record. This semis belongs to a brief window of local bronze production that effectively ended as Rome consolidated control over Sicily following the Second Punic War — after which autonomous Sicilian civic issues largely ceased.