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Tetrachalkon
| Issuer | Kentoripai |
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| Year | 214 BC - 210 BC |
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| Currency | Litra |
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| Reverse description | A winged thunderbolt (keraunos) depicted in full face at centre, with radiating wings and zigzag lightning bolts extending symmetrically to either side, rendered in high relief with fine detail. The ethnic legend ΚΕΝΤΟ appears above the thunderbolt and ΡΙΠΙΝΩΝ below, divided by the central device, identifying the issuing community of Kentoripai in Greek script. The design is well-centred on the irregular flan, with the thunderbolt serving as the principal civic emblem of the city. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kentoripai — ancient Centuripae, in the interior of Sicily — occupied an awkward political position during the Second Punic War, caught between Carthaginian pressure and Roman military consolidation of the island. This bronze issue dates to precisely the years when Rome was reasserting control over Sicily following the fall of Syracuse in 212 BC, a campaign that effectively ended Carthage's Sicilian ambitions. Local civic bronzes of this period from inland Sicilian communities are thought to reflect a brief window of residual municipal autonomy before full Roman administrative absorption made independent civic coinage obsolete.