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| Issuer | Sermyle |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of a female deity facing right, her hair secured in a sphendone, adorned with a single-pendant earring. The head is rendered in the classical Greek style characteristic of 4th century BC Macedonian coinage, with fine facial features partially obscured by heavy patination and wear. The field is plain, with the portrait occupying the central area of the flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sermyle, a small Chalcidian colony on the Sithonian peninsula of Macedon, struck bronze coinage during a period when the region was being increasingly absorbed into the Macedonian sphere under Philip II. The city's autonomous issues are rare enough that individual specimens carry outsized scholarly interest relative to their modest size.