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Tetras
| Issuer | Kefra |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Currency | Litra |
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| Obverse description | Bearded head of Herakles facing right, adorned with the Nemean lion's skin headdress, the paws knotted at the throat; rendered in archaic-to-classical Sicilian style with boldly modeled facial features and naturalistic musculature of the scalp skin visible across the crown. |
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| Reverse description | A hippocamp (sea-horse) striding or swimming to the right, depicted with the foreparts of a horse and a coiling fish-tail body curling upward behind; the creature is rendered in profile with visible scale or fin details along the tail, set within a plain field typical of Sicilian bronze coinage of the fourth century BC. |
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Kefra was a small settlement in Sicily whose bronze fractional coinage circulated within a tightly localized economy during the fourth century BC. The tetras, worth three onkiai, was among the smallest meaningful units of exchange in the Sikeliot bronze system.