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| Issuer | Chersonesos (Taurica) |
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| Year | 350 BC |
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| Diameter | 15 mm |
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| Obverse description | Facing head of a bearded deity, most likely Herakles or a river god, rendered in a bold archaic-to-early-classical style, occupying the majority of the flan. The hair is depicted in thick, radiating locks framing the face, and the features are rendered with pronounced relief typical of Chersonesian bronze coinage. The Greek monogram ΗΡ (abbreviation for Herakles or the civic magistrate's initial) appears in the upper field above the head. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΗΡ |
| Reverse description | A bull standing or charging to the left, rendered in profile with musculature indicated in low relief, filling the central field. The abbreviated civic ethnic ΧΕΡ (for Chersonesos) is inscribed in Greek letters along the lower exergual area. The overall composition reflects the civic coinage conventions of the Tauric Chersonesos mint in the mid-fourth century BC. |
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