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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Katane |
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| Year | 465 BC - 450 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (20) |
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| Obverse description | Man-headed bull representing the river god Amenanos, bearded and kneeling to right, rendered in the Sicilian archaic style. A fish appears beneath the bull in the field, and a heron stands upon the creature's back, walking to left. The composition is set within a shallow circular border, with no inscription present on the obverse. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Katane's silver coinage from this period reflects the city's awkward position in the aftermath of Hieron I of Syracuse's forced population transfers — in 476 BC, Hieron expelled the original Katanaean inhabitants entirely, resettling the city with Syracusan and Peloponnesian colonists and renaming it Aitna. The original population wandered for over a decade before reclaiming their city around 461 BC, following Hieron's death and the broader democratic revolutions that swept Sicily. This tetradrachm almost certainly belongs to that restoration period, struck by a community reasserting its identity after years of displacement.