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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Katane (Sicily) |
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| Year | 405 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (20) |
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| Obverse description | Fast quadriga driven to the left by a charioteer holding the reins in both hands, rendered in fine early Classical style. Above the chariot, Nike flies to the right, extending a wreath to crown the victorious driver. The scene is enclosed within a dotted border, and the letter H appears in the exergue beneath the ground line. |
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| Obverse lettering | H |
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Katane's coinage of the early fourth century BC was brutally interrupted when Dionysios I of Syracuse razed the city in 403 BC and deported its entire population to Syracuse, ending civic coin production for decades. A tetradrachm dated to 405 BC sits just ahead of that destruction — struck while the city still functioned, likely while Syracusan military pressure was already being felt across eastern Sicily.
The Weber 1268 reference places this among a small, well-documented group. Mirone's corpus remains the foundational die study for Katanean silver of this period.