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Æ16
| Issuer | Thymbra |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing left, wearing a crested Attic helmet. The facial features are rendered in archaic-transitional style characteristic of fourth-century Mysian bronzes, with the cheek guards partially visible. The flan is irregular with some surface roughness in the field. |
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| Reverse description | A flaming torch depicted upright at center, enclosed within a laurel wreath whose branches curve symmetrically inward from the base and terminate at the top of the design. The wreath is rendered with individual elongated leaves in relief, and the overall composition is well-centered within the concave reverse field. |
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Thymbra was a small settlement in the Troad, the region surrounding ancient Troy, known primarily as the site where, according to tradition, Achilles was killed by Paris. The town's autonomous coinage is rare and poorly documented — the issuing authority was minor enough that its bronzes circulated in a highly localized area, likely serving agricultural and market exchange within a few kilometers. Few hoards containing Thymbraean issues have been recorded, which makes die-linkage studies across the series nearly impossible.