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1 Obol Antiochos imitation, Samarqand, stylized archer, bow to the right
| Uitgever | Samarqand (ancient) |
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| Jaar | 201-401 |
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| Samenstelling | Silver |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Crude bearded male bust facing left, rendered in a strongly stylized Sogdian artistic tradition derived from Seleucid prototypes. The hair is depicted in a schematic, striated manner sweeping back from the brow, and the beard is indicated by cursory engraving. A Sogdian legend appears in the field before the face. The portrait, though debased from its Hellenistic model, retains the general profile effigy format of Antiochos I. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Highly stylized and schematized figure of an archer standing, derived from the Seleucid reverse type of Antiochos I. The figure, rendered without a clearly defined head, is shown in a frontal or near-frontal stance holding a bow directed to the right. The design is heavily degenerated from its Hellenistic archetype, with limbs and attributes reduced to abstract linear forms. The field surrounding the figure is plain. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
These tiny fractions circulated in Sogdiana during a period when no single political authority controlled the region's coinage — local rulers and merchants in the Zarafshan valley adapted Seleukid monetary forms long after Antiochos I's original issues had ceased, gradually abstracting the archer type across generations of copying until the image became nearly unrecognizable. The process was deliberate economy, not ignorance: local die-cutters maintained enough iconographic continuity to guarantee acceptance in trade while severing any political claim the original type implied.