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| 背面描述 | A large scallop shell depicted with the hinge uppermost and the valves splayed downward, rendered with careful ribbing to convey the natural form of the shell. Four pellets, disposed in a loose arrangement in the upper field, serve as the mark of value indicating the trias (one-quarter litra). The composition is set within a plain, unbordered field, with no inscription, consistent with the emergency bronze coinage struck at Himera in its final years before the city's destruction by Carthage in 409 BC. |
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| 铸币厂 | Himera |
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Himera's final years of coin production — abruptly ended when the Carthaginian general Hannibal Mago sacked and razed the city in 409 BC in revenge for the Sicilian defeat of 480 BC — make any issue from this terminal window historically significant by default. The destruction was total; the city was never reoccupied as a Greek polis. These small bronzes represent the last municipal coinage struck before one of the most thoroughly documented acts of punitive urban annihilation in ancient Sicily.