Enna

Enna (Siciliae), municipium, now Castro Giovanni. - A very ancient city, where Ceres was worshipped in a magnificent temple. - The coins of this place are autonomous; all brass (with one exception, unique, in silver) - a few Latin, but chiefly Greek legends; the types are - Prosepine, head of Ceres, head of Apollo. There are no imperial coins. On a large brass, which is classed in Morell. Fam. Rom. with coins of the Cestia gens, is a veiled head of Ceres, with a torch before it, alluding to the torches with whitch, as the poets feigned, that goddess songht her lost daughter, on Mount Etna; and on the reverse, Pluto, the ravisher, is carrying away the virgin in a quadriga. The obverse legend is M. CESTIVS and L. MVNATIVS (Duumviri). The legend of reverse is MVN. HENN. (municipium Henna). There is also a middle brass, bearing the names of the same dunmvirs, with the type of Venus. And a third autonomous brass, with M. CESTIVS and the head of Ceres, on its obverse, and MVN. HENNA, with two female figures in a quadriga, on the reverse, is cited by Miounet (Suppt. i. 384) from E. Harwood, pop. et urb. sel. num. p. 56.