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Æ14
| Issuer | Medeion |
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| Year | 350 BC - 300 BC |
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| Diameter | 14.0 mm |
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| Reverse description | Owl standing in profile to the right, its head rendered frontally with large eyes and tufted ears, wings folded against the body in the Athenian tradition. The Greek letters ΜΕ appear in the left field and ΦΙ in the right field, serving as the ethnic abbreviation for Medeion. The design is set on a plain, unbordered field typical of small Akarnanian bronze issues of the fourth century BC. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Medeion was a minor Akarnanian polis whose coinage is known almost entirely from a single concentrated find — the BCD collection, assembled by a specialist whose pseudonymous identity became inseparable from the scholarship on this region. Without that collection, the civic series of inland Akarnania would be largely undocumented. HGC 4, 892 records only a handful of specimens, making individual die studies effectively impossible at current census levels.