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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Sicily| > |Other Sicily| > GI76936
Aitna, Sicily, The Kampanoi Mercenaries, c. 354 - 344 B.C.
|Other| |Sicily|, |Aitna,| |Sicily,| |The| |Kampanoi| |Mercenaries,| |c.| |354| |-| |344| |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.
GI76936. Bronze AE 14, Calciati III, p. 327, 2; HGC 2 1608 (R1, Tauromenion); SNG Morcom 877 (340 - 330 B.C.); BMC Sicily p. 237, 4; SNG ANS -; SNG Cop -; SNG Munchen -, VF, green patina, smoothing, Aitna (or Tauromenion?) mint, weight 2.744g, maximum diameter 14.4mm, die axis 60o, c. 354 - 344 B.C.; obverse Phrygian helmet with cheek guards, ornamented with a griffin, linear border; reverse KAM (Kampanoi) monogram in olive wreath; SOLD











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