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| Issuer | Tauromenion |
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| Year | 211 BC - 208 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, wearing a Corinthian helmet pushed back on the head, the cheek-guards raised. The portrait is rendered in a confident Sicilian style, with fine modeling of the facial features. A dotted border frames the field. |
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| Reverse description | Athena's owl standing facing, with wings closed and feathers carefully detailed, its large round eyes rendered frontally in the archaic Athenian tradition. The ethnic legend TAYPOMENITAN is inscribed in Greek characters, divided to the left and right of the central device, running along the inner border of the coin field. |
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| Mint | Tauromenion (Sicily) |
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