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| Issuer | Samos |
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| Year | 408 BC - 366 BC |
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| Diameter | 14 mm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Hera facing left, rendered in fine archaic-to-classical Greek style. The goddess is depicted with elaborately coiffed wavy hair, secured at the crown and falling in rich locks behind the neck. A small polos or diadem ornament is visible atop the head. The facial features are finely modelled, with a gently sloping nose and full lips characteristic of late 5th-century Ionian die-cutting. The field is otherwise plain, with no legend. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Samos in this period was caught between competing pressures — Spartan dominance following Athens' defeat in 404 BC, then the slow reassertion of Persian satrapal control over the Aegean coast. The island's bronze coinage of this era served local exchange while the political ground shifted repeatedly beneath it. Athenian cleruchs had been expelled, the old democratic institutions dismantled, and the civic identity expressed through small bronzes like this one was among the few continuities the Samians could sustain across those disruptions.