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Æ10
| Issuer | Paros |
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| Year | 400 BC - 200 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | A goat standing left in profile, rendered with compact musculature and a naturalistic stance, its head lowered slightly toward the ground line. The inscription ΠΑ, an abbreviation for ΠΑΡΟΣ (Paros), appears in the upper right field in Greek characters. A ground line is indicated beneath the animal. The composition is typical of Cycladic civic bronze coinage, with the goat serving as a civic emblem of the island of Paros. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΠΑ |
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Paros, the Cycladic island whose white marble supplied sculptors across the Greek world, struck small bronzes like this throughout the classical and early Hellenistic periods with little systematic documentation — which explains the BMC "var." attribution. The island's mint output was modest, tied more to local commercial need than any ambition of regional monetary influence.
The variation from the catalogued BMC 10 type likely reflects a die substitution or minor magistrate change, both common in small island mints where engravers worked with limited oversight across decades.