Hemidrachm

Himera's numismatic output was cut short with brutal finality. In 409 BC, the Carthaginian general Hannibal Mago sacked the city entirely — partly in revenge for the Carthaginian defeat at the Battle of Himera in 480 BC, a humiliation his grandfather Hamilcar had not survived. The population was massacred or enslaved, and the mint ceased permanently. Any coin from this terminal phase of production is, by definition, among the last objects the city ever made.