Tetradrachm

Entella was a Sicel town in the interior of Sicily that fell under Campanian mercenary control in the late fifth century BC — soldiers who had been hired by Dionysios I of Syracuse and then simply refused to leave. This coin was struck by those Campanian occupiers, who maintained a degree of civic identity distinct from their Syracusan patrons. The Jenkins sequence places this piece within a closely studied die-linked group, and the HGC attribution reflects how recently this series was properly systematized; earlier scholarship had misassigned much of it.