The Gela Hoard is one of the most important coin hoards from early 5th century BCE Sicily. Found on the site of a suburban shrine, around 870 of the estimated 1,076 silver coins were recovered after initial dispersal. Buried around 480 BCE, likely amid the upheaval surrounding the Battle of Himera, the hoard captures the coinage of several Greek Sicilian cities which circulated simultaneously. Akragas dominates the scholarly discussion: 258 of its didrachms, including this coin, belong to Group III. Gela contributes 29 tetradrachms from 17 obverse dies, while Messana is represented by 136 tetradrachms from 70 obverse dies. Leontini is however conspicuously absent, which scholars use as evidence that its mint had not yet begun operating. Sicilian hoards of the same period are usually smaller in size, which makes the Gela Hoard exceptional. Its value lies in serving as a fixed chronological anchor for multiple mints at once, a numismatic snapshot of Greek Sicily on the eve of one of antiquity's most celebrated military victories.