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Æ16
| Issuer | Paros |
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| Year | 325 BC - 275 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | A goat standing to the right in profile, rendered with compact, stylized musculature characteristic of Cycladic civic bronzes. The animal is depicted with head raised and short horns visible. The ethnic abbreviation ΠΑ (for ΠΑΡΙΩΝ, the citizens of Paros) appears in the right field, identifying the issuing city-state. |
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| Mintage | ND (325 BC - 275 BC) |
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Paros, the Cycladic island famous for its luminite marble quarries, was a modest but independent polis whose bronze coinage served local exchange rather than regional ambition. The dating bracket spanning 325–275 BC places this issue across the turbulent decades of the Diadochi wars, when Aegean island communities navigated shifting Macedonian and Ptolemaic spheres of influence without minting the prestige silver that larger centers produced.
The SNG Copenhagen and BMC references confirm this as a well-documented if scarce type — Parian bronzes survive in small numbers, consistent with limited original production.