SICILY, Kamarina
AR Litra. 0.66g, 11.2mm
MINTED: SICILY, Kamarina, circa 461-440/35 BC
REF: SNG Oxford 1689; Westermark & Jenkins 13
OBVERSE: Nike flying right; to lower right, swan standing right; all within olive wreath.
REVERSE: K[AMA]RI, Athena standing left, wearing aegis and holding spear in right hand; to right, shield.

Notes:
Dark toning.  Slightly rough surfaces, but excellent details. 
 
Historical Notes:
Though Kamarina was founded by colonists from Syracuse, its relationship with its mother city was often a troubled one.  Kamarina not only repeatedly rebelled against Syracusan control, but would also ally itself with Syracuse's enemies.  In 405 BC, during the Sicilian Wars, it was abandoned by its citizens and subsequently sacked and occupied by invading Carthaginian forces.  Over a century later, during the first Punic War, it was seized again by the Carthaginians in 259 BC, and the year after that, by the Romans.  By the time of the 1st century BC, the city had lost most of its citizens as well as its significance.