I present to you: Sicily, Kentoripai Æ Hemilitron (Ca. 344-336 B.C.) Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo right. Reverse: KENTO-ΡIΠINΩN; lyre, three pellets to left and right. Kentoripai was an iron age town that maintained its culture and language long after much of Sicily had become Hellenized. In 414 B.C., the town allied with Athens to help defeat a Syracusan inland expedition. In 396, Kentoripai made a treaty with Syracuse. In 344, Timoleon defeated Nikodemos, the ruler of Kentoripai and annexed the city and its territory. Kentoripai was one of the first cities in Sicily to make a treaty with Rome. The city was rewarded for its loyalty and under Roman protection it became one of the most important cities in Roman Sicily. Show your Sicilian bronzes!
My only Kentoripai is a 16mm 2.38g hexas (2 dots) with Demeter and a plow with a bird. That would make it 1/3 of the excellent Pavlos coin.
LOL! Nice score, I was following those listings closely too and also got one (plus 3 last week). It isn't bronze but ya might recognize it SICILY. PANORMOS. 415-405 BC. AR Litra 9mm, 0.70g. Head of female right, wearing sphendone / Forepart of man-headed bull right; shell below. Jenkins 1971,p.46.no. 8, HGC 2, 1041
Haha I saw that coin as well, nice one and a great price, I was doubting to get it because I liked the reverse, but one at the time!
I'd say you chose a very good one, those more obscure Sicilian coins are very interesting and appealing, I can see why so many collect them. Hopefully the first of many for you!
A beautiful coin! Here is an excellent video by Peter Pringle on the astonishingly sophisticated possibilities of the ancient Greek kithara...
Welcome to Magna Graecia @Pavlos ! I happen to have one from your city, among a few others from Sicily: Did a lot of farming growing up, hence my getting this plow coin... SICILY Kentoripai Æ Hexas 16mm 3.0g 344-336 BCE Persephone r grain ear plow w bird two pellets Calciati III BMC Sicily 12ff
Hmm, it seems I can now submit a more relevant coin, ya probably recognize it also! The artistic merits really drew me in. SICILY, KAINON. 365-357 B.C. AE 21mm, 9.32g
Very nice! Here is one I don’t think I’ve ever shown, but the face of Acheloios is charming. Agyrion, mid 4th century BC. Male head right/ Forepart of Acheloios Palagkaios as a man-faced bull to right, PALAGKAIOS above. MSP I, 9.
