Litra

Features

Issuer	Messana (Sicily)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	460 BC - 456 BC
Value	1 Litra
Currency	Litra
Composition	Silver
Weight	0.82 g
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 393755
References	SNG Ashmolean# 1854 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes). , SNG Fitzwilliam# 1072 Fritz Heichelheim. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume IV - The Fitzwilliam Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (8 volumes). , SNG Lockett# 819 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes).

Obverse

Hare springing right.

Reverse

ΜΕΣ (retrograde) within olive wreath.

Script: Greek (retrograde)

Lettering: ΜΕΣ

Mint

Messana, Sicily, modern-day Messina, Italy

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (460 BC - 456 BC)

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