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正面描述	Veiled head of Demeter facing right, wearing a wreath of grain ears, rendered in the plain archaic provincial style typical of Eleusinian bronze coinage of the Hellenistic period. The portrait occupies the full field of the flan with no surrounding legend. The surface displays a dark patina with areas of green corrosion consistent with ancient burial.
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背面文字	Ancient Greek
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附加信息	Eleusis maintained its own bronze coinage despite being geographically and politically entangled with Athens throughout the Hellenistic period — an autonomy rooted in the sanctuary's pan-Hellenic religious status rather than any genuine political independence. The Eleusinian Mysteries drew initiates from across the Greek world, and local small bronzes like this one likely circulated within the sanctuary precinct itself, used for votive purchases, fees, or minor transactions tied to festival activity. Kroll's cataloguing of Eleusinian bronzes remains the authoritative treatment, placing this type within a modest local emission that never achieved wide geographic circulation.

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