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Æ12
| Issuer | Phygela |
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| Year | 350 BC - 300 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | A bull charging and butting to the right, depicted with musculature rendered in relief; an astragalus (knucklebone) is placed in the lower field before the animal. The ethnic abbreviation Φ Υ (for Phygela) appears in two separated letters in the upper field, flanking the bull. |
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| Mintage | ND (350 BC - 300 BC) |
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Phygela was a minor coastal settlement near Ephesus on the Ionian coast, known primarily from ancient sources as a refuge — its name linked by some ancient writers to the Greek word for flight, with a tradition that fugitives from Agamemnon's fleet founded it. The city struck bronze coinage only briefly, and surviving examples are genuinely scarce. The SNG Copenhagen 1072 variant designation suggests a die or type deviation not fully catalogued, which is unsurprising given how little systematic work has been done on Phygelan bronzes specifically.