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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Katane (Sicily) |
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| Year | 405 BC - 402 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Katane, one of the oldest Chalcidian colonies on Sicily's eastern coast, was producing some of the finest engraved coinage in the Greek world when this tetradrachm was struck — a period that coincided precisely with the catastrophic Athenian defeat in Sicily and the subsequent Carthaginian invasions under Hannibal Mago and Himilco. The city fell to Carthaginian-backed forces and was effectively destroyed around 403 BC, making this issue one of the last struck before that collapse.
The narrow date range and the city's violent interruption mean surviving examples come from a compressed production window of perhaps three years.