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Tetras
| Issuer | Akragas (Sicily) |
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| Year | 415 BC - 406 BC |
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| Currency | Litra |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Agrigentum, Sicily, modern-day Agrigento, Italy |
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Akragas in the early fourth century BC was one of the wealthiest poleis in the Greek world — Empedocles famously remarked that its citizens ate as though they would die tomorrow and built as though they would live forever. This bronze issue falls within the city's final decades of prosperity before the Carthaginian general Hannibal Mago sacked and razed Akragas in 406 BC, an event so catastrophic that the city never fully recovered its pre-war population or political influence.
The tetras denomination represents a quarter-litra in the Sicilian bronze reckoning, valued at three onkiai.