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| Issuer | Graxa (Calabria) |
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| Year | 250 BC - 225 BC |
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| Weight | 0.96 g |
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| Obverse description | Cockle shell depicted in high relief, viewed from above, with clearly delineated radiating ribs spreading fan-like from the hinge toward the outer valve edge. The shell fills the flan and is rendered with naturalistic detail characteristic of Calabrian bronze coinage of the period. No legend or inscription appears on the obverse. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Graxa was a minor Messapian settlement in Calabria whose autonomous bronze coinage was almost certainly terminated by Roman expansion into the region following the Pyrrhic War. The city itself is so poorly documented that its precise location remains disputed among scholars, making its coins among the few surviving evidence that it functioned as an independent political entity at all.