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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Sicily| > |Other Sicily| > GB65648
Aetna, Sicily, c. 210 - 208 B.C.
|Other| |Sicily|, |Aetna,| |Sicily,| |c.| |210| |-| |208| |B.C.|, In 475 B.C. Hieron moved ten thousand settlers from Syracuse and Peloponnesus to Katane and renamed it Aetna. In 461, after Hieron's death, the new settlers were expelled. They moved to the southern slope of the volcano and founded a new Aetna. In 403 B.C., Dionysius the Elder made himself master of Aetna, where he settled his discharged Campanian mercenaries, the Kampanoi. The Kampanoi retained possession of Aitna until 339 B.C., when Timoleon took the city and put them to the sword. Under Rome, Aitna became a municipal town of considerable importance; its territory being one of the most fertile of all Sicily. The site of the city and time of its destruction are unknown today.
GB65648. Bronze trias, Calciati III, p. 148, 9a (same dies), SNG ANS 1160 - 1161 var. (pellets right); BMC Sicily p. 4, 2 var. (same), VF, nice green patina, Aitna mint, weight 4.459g, maximum diameter 18.3mm, die axis 45o, Roman rule, c. 210 - 208 B.C.; obverse radiate and draped bust of Apollo right; reverse AITNAIΩN, warrior standing facing, head right, spear vertical in right, shield in left; three pellets lower right; very rare; SOLD











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