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Tetras
| Issuer | Himera |
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| Year | 420 BC - 407 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Ancient Greek |
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| Mint | Himera Mint |
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| Additional information |
Himera's bronze coinage begins here, in the aftermath of the city's catastrophic defeat by Carthage in 409 BC — though these tetras were struck in the years just before that disaster. When Hannibal Mago sacked Himera in 409, he razed it entirely in revenge for the Carthaginian defeat on the same ground in 480 BC. The city ceased to exist. Surviving bronzes from this final phase of Himerean coinage are therefore genuinely terminal issues, struck by a mint that had fewer than a dozen years left.