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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Sicily| > |Kamarina| > GI96860
Kamarina, Sicily, 339 - 300 B.C.
|Kamarina|, |Kamarina,| |Sicily,| |339| |-| |300| |B.C.|, Kamarina was destroyed by Carthage in 405 B.C. In 396 B.C. the citizens who escaped returned, but only under Timoleon in 339 B.C. was the city reconstructed. A period of splendor ended with the sack by the Mamertines in 275 B.C. and destruction by the Romans in 258 B.C. The site was probably abandoned during the period of Augustus.
GI96860. Bronze AE 16, Westermark-Jenkins 208.6 (A/c); BMC Sicily p. 40, 43 (same dies); Calciati III, p. 69, 42/7 (same); SNG Cop 170 (same obv. die); HGC 2 555 (R1), F, green patina, well centered, porous, scratches, Kamarina (near Scoglitti, Sicily, Italy) mint, weight 2.878g, maximum diameter 15.5mm, die axis 180o, 339 - 300 B.C.; obverse KAMAPINAIΩN (clockwise on left), head of Athena left, in crested Athenian helmet; reverse horse prancing left, barley ear left in exergue; rare; SOLD











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