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Message:: [QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 3454029, member: 42773"]Last month I purchased my Handbook of Coins of Sicily, Oliver Hoover, published by CNG - almost 500 pages of numismatic goodness. It's got to be the most comprehensive and inexpensive guide to Sicilian coinage available. <img src="https://i.ibb.co/znWWw4B/IMG-0601.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Today I had my first chance to use it on a coin from Kentoripa. Hoover tells us... "No further coinage appears to have been produced until the late third century BC, when Kentoripa struck a new coinage in connection with the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) between Rome and Carthage. Two denominations with marked face values expressed in terms of the chalkous (bronze) unit, a new name for the old Sicilian onkia. A large coin of denomination A module pairs the head of Zeus with his thunderbolt. Its face value as a tetrachalkon is indicated by the Greek letter-numeral Δ. The treatment of the thunderbolt is very similar to that of the contemporary coins of the Syracusan king, Hieronymos (215-214 BC)." [Hoover, p. 176] <img src="https://i.ibb.co/yd32s74/Kent-600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> SICILY, Kentoripa (Centuripe). Circa 214-210 BC. Æ Tetrachalkon, 10.6g; 28x25mm, 2h.Obv.: Laureate head of Zeus right.Rev.: KENT◦/PIΠINΩN; Thunderbolt; Δ below.Reference: HGC II, 633 (p. 177)[/QUOTE]