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| Issuer | Teuthrania |
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| Year | 400 BC |
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| Weight | 0.82 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in archaic Greek style with softly modelled features. The hair is depicted in wavy strands falling behind the neck. The surfaces show typical ancient wear and patination consistent with a hammered bronze issue of the late fifth to early fourth century BC. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Teuthrania was a small dynastic territory in the Caicus River valley of Mysia, controlled in the early fourth century by Gongylus of Eretria and his descendants — Greek exiles who had been granted the region by the Persian king for collaborating with Xerxes during the invasion of Greece. This coin likely falls within that dynastic period, placing its minting authority in the hands of a family that owed its entire political existence to an act of medism.