Tetras Campanian mercenaries

This small bronze was struck by Campanian mercenaries who had seized Katane following the Carthaginian campaigns of the early fourth century, holding the city for roughly a decade before Timoleon's forces expelled them around 339–338 BC. The coinage they produced during this occupation appropriated the city's civic types — a calculated act of legitimacy from a garrison that had no real claim to the mint.

Timoleon's Sicilian campaign, backed by Corinth, systematically dismantled these mercenary strongholds across the island. The brevity of this occupation window makes the type chronologically tight and historically specific.