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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Thermai Himerensis |
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| Year | 350 BC |
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| Weight | 17.17 g |
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| Mint | Thermai Himerensis (Sicily) |
| Mintage | ND (-350) |
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Thermai Himerensis was founded by Carthage around 407 BC on the site of the destroyed Greek city of Himera, which the Carthaginians had razed in revenge for the Sicilian Greeks' earlier defeat of their forces in 480 BC. The new settlement was a deliberate hybrid — Carthaginian in control, but populated partly by survivors of Himera and other Sicilian Greeks, which explains the thoroughly Greek character of its coinage. By 350 BC the city was issuing tetradrachms that look entirely at home among Siculo-Greek issues, despite the Punic authority behind them.
SNG Lloyd 1039 is among the better-documented specimens of this scarce civic type.