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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Katane |
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| Year | 435 BC - 412 BC |
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| Weight | 16.80 g |
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| Reverse lettering | ΚΑΤΑΝΑΙΟΝ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Katane occupied an uncomfortable position on the eastern Sicilian coast — wealthy enough to mint prestige silver, politically unstable enough to lose control of its own dies. The city was seized by Dionysios I of Syracuse around 403 BC, its population enslaved or expelled and replaced with Campanian mercenaries. Coinage struck in the decades just before that catastrophe carries a charged urgency that the catalog numbers alone cannot convey.
The references here — ANS, Lloyd, Jameson, Gulbenkian, Gillet — reflect how aggressively this type has been collected and studied. Gulbenkian 185 in particular passed through sale with considerable scholarly attention to die linkage.