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1⁄12 Gold Stater
| Issuer | Barke |
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| Year | 435 BC - 331 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a horse facing right, rendered in a schematic yet vigorous archaic style characteristic of Cyrenaican coinage. The mane is depicted with incised parallel strokes, and the musculature of the neck and chest is summarily indicated on the small flan. The design fills the irregular hammered field with no legend or border present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Barke — modern Al-Marj in Libya — was one of the six cities of the Cyrenaica, founded as a Cyrenaean colony around 560 BC. It maintained enough political independence to strike its own coinage, a distinction not all dependent cities achieved. The mint was extinguished when Alexander the Great's campaigns absorbed the region in 331 BC, making the entire issue span a hard terminus.
At 0.43 g, this twelfth-stater denomination served trade at the smallest divisional unit the Cyrenaican gold series offered.