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Trias
| Issuer | Alontion |
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| Year | 280 BC - 270 BC |
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| Currency | Litra |
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| Reverse description | A bull depicted in vigorous motion, charging to the right with head lowered and forelegs raised, conveying dynamic energy characteristic of Sicilian bronze coinage of this period. The animal is rendered in profile with muscular detail. The design is enclosed within a partial dotted border or exergual line visible along the lower portion of the flan. No inscriptions appear in the field or exergue. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Alontion was a small Sikel settlement in northeastern Sicily, near modern Alcara Li Fusi, that briefly produced its own civic coinage during the third century BC — a period when dozens of minor Sicilian communities asserted local identity through bronze issues before being absorbed into the expanding orbit of Syracuse or Carthage. The trias, worth three unciae, was the workhorse fraction of Sicilian bronze coinage, and Alontion's output was modest enough that Campana catalogued the series with only a handful of recognized types.