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browsing: local script = Himera item number: 1 of 8 Himera back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Coin series of 6th c. with legend 'Hi, Tu, Lu (?)', continuing in 5th c. with 'Hime, Himera', etc. (Suppl: Add an example with the legend 'Tuchon' 490 - 485 ?) catalogue number: 813 LSAG reference: 248.17 date: 6th c. onwards object type: Coin region: WC sub-region: Euboic Colonies, Sicily (Chalkidic) archaeological context: Himera     publications: Babelon, E., Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines vol. 2 edition 1 pp. 1561 ff Head, B.V., Historia Numorum edition 2 pp. 143 ff Milne, Num. Chron. vol. 18 (1938) pp. 37 ff Kraay, AIIN suppl. to vols xv-xvi pp. 9-10     archival material:     local script: Himera inscription script analysis: not available     transcription: coin legends hι, Τυ, Λυ (?) hιμε, hιμερα, Ιμερα, Ιμεραιον, Πελοψ     translation: not available