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SICILY, Solous (Kefra). Circa 415-406 BC. Æ Hemilitron (20mm, 6.04 g, 5h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Crawfish right; six pellets (mark of value) around. Campana 4; CNS 6; HGC 2, 1248. Dark green patina, some smoothing. VF. Rare.
From the L.H. Collection. Ex Leu Numismatik Web Auction 13 (15 August 2020), lot 121; Peus 407 (7 November 2012), lot 260; Peus 360 (27 April 1999), lot 161.
Solous was one of the three original Phoenician colonies founded in Sicily alongside Motya and Panormos. The city fell under Carthaginian domination along with the other cities, staying loyal even when Dionysios of Syracuse invaded Punic territory in western Sicily. That loyalty continued even to the First Punic War, with the city not surrendering until the neighboring Punic city of Panormos had fallen.
From the L.H. Collection. Ex Leu Numismatik Web Auction 13 (15 August 2020), lot 121; Peus 407 (7 November 2012), lot 260; Peus 360 (27 April 1999), lot 161.
Solous was one of the three original Phoenician colonies founded in Sicily alongside Motya and Panormos. The city fell under Carthaginian domination along with the other cities, staying loyal even when Dionysios of Syracuse invaded Punic territory in western Sicily. That loyalty continued even to the First Punic War, with the city not surrendering until the neighboring Punic city of Panormos had fallen.