Tetras

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背面描述	An upright thyrsus or torch depicted vertically at center, dividing the Greek ethnic inscription into two columns across the field. The device is rendered with fine detail, with the shaft extending nearly the full height of the flan. The flanking letters of the ethnic are arranged symmetrically in retrograde reading order typical of Sicilian civic bronzes. The flat, unadorned field surrounding the central device is characteristic of the austere civic coinage of inland Sicilian communities.
背面文字	Greek
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附加信息	Agyrion, a Sikel settlement in the interior of Sicily near modern Agira, retained meaningful civic autonomy well into the fourth century despite Syracusan dominance over much of the island. The tetras — valued at three onkiai within the Sicilian bronze fractional system — was the practical small-change denomination of daily commerce in these inland communities, where silver rarely penetrated ordinary transactions. Agyrion is notable as the birthplace of the historian Diodorus Siculus, though that connection postdates this coinage by roughly two centuries.

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