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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Katane |
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| Year | 430 BC - 413 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (20) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Katane, a Chalkidian colony on the eastern coast of Sicily, produced some of the most artistically ambitious coinage of the fifth century BC. These tetradrachms belong to the period when Sicilian die engraving reached its peak — the same decades that produced the signed masterworks of Kimon and Euainetos at Syracuse. Katane's own engravers, while less frequently identified by name, were working in direct competition with that tradition.
The city was violently depopulated by Dionysios I of Syracuse around 403 BC, its inhabitants enslaved and replaced with Campanian mercenaries. Coins from this series therefore predate that rupture entirely.