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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Sicily| > |Other Sicily| > GB65650
Menaion, Sicily, c. 204 - 190 B.C.
|Other| |Sicily|, |Menaion,| |Sicily,| |c.| |204| |-| |190| |B.C.|, Mineo, Sicily (ancient Menaion) is inland about 64 km southwest of Catania. It was a Sikel city, founded around 458 B.C. by King Douketios. In 396 B.C. it was captured by Dionysios I of Syracuse. Under Roman rule Cicero mentions Menaion among the "civitatis decumanae," cities that pay one tenth of their annual harvest to Rome. Today it has about 5,600 residents.
GB65650. Bronze hexas, Calciati III p. 189, 13; BMC Sicily p. 97, 4; SNG Munchen 624; SNG ANS -; SNG Cop -; SNG Morcom -, VF, Menaion (Mineo, Sicily, Italy) mint, weight 1.645g, maximum diameter 14.1mm, die axis 45o, c. 204 - 190 B.C.; obverse draped bust of Hermes right, wearing winged petasos; reverse MENAI/NΩN, kerykeion (caduceus), two pellets (mark of value) lower left; very rare; SOLD











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