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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2406865, member: 51347&quot;][ATTACH=full]496797[/ATTACH]</p><p>The Mamertini, Sicily</p><p>c. 288 - 278 BCE</p><p>Bronze pentonkion</p><p>Messana mint</p><p>27.5mm, 16.29g</p><p>Obv: APEΣ, laureate head of Ares right, Macedonian helmet behind</p><p>Rev: MAMEPTINΩN, eagle standing left on a thunderbolt, head left, wings open</p><p>Ref: Calciati I p. 93, 3/1; SNG ANS 402; BMC Sicily p. 109, 3; SNG Cop 434 var (on reverse Φ left) </p><p>Ex: Forum</p><p><br /></p><p>Comments:&nbsp; Mamertini or &quot;children of Mars,&quot; was the name taken by a band of Campanian (or Samnite) freebooters who about 289 B.C. seized the Greek colony of Messana at the north-east corner of Sicily, after having been hired by Agathocles to defend it (Polyb. 1. 7. 2). - 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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