Catalog
Trias
| Issuer | Menainon |
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| Year | 200 BC - 150 BC |
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| Currency | Litra |
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| Reverse description | Two crossed torches in saltire arrangement, their flames meeting at the crossing point, a characteristic cultic symbol associated with Demeter. The ethnic inscription MENA to the left and INΩN to the right flanks the central device, split across the field. The mark of value delta (Δ), denoting the trias (three onkiai), appears below the crossed torches. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Menainon was a Sikel settlement in the interior of Sicily, modern Mineo, that survived the Roman conquest of the island by adapting to Roman administrative structures while continuing to strike civic bronze into the mid-second century BC. The trias denomination — one-quarter of a litra — persisted in Sicilian bronze coinage long after it had become functionally redundant, sustained largely by local exchange habits rather than any broader monetary policy.
The Campana 4B/c attribution places this among the later emissions of the series, distinguished by specific die combinations documented in that corpus.