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| Issuer | Delphi |
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| Year | 350 BC - 330 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Horse galloping to right, rendered in a compact, archaic style typical of Phokian civic bronzes. The animal is depicted in profile with its forelegs extended in full stride, the head slightly lowered. The design occupies the majority of the plain, unbordered field with no legend or inscription. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Delphi's civic bronze coinage of this period occupied an awkward political moment — the sanctuary and its treasury had been seized by the Phocians at the outset of the Third Sacred War in 356 BC, and Delphian civic authority was not meaningfully restored until Philip II of Macedon intervened and concluded the war in 346 BC. Small bronzes attributed to Delphi in this date range therefore circulated under conditions of contested municipal control, making their precise issuing authority a genuine open question among specialists.