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Æ18
| Issuer | Terina |
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| Year | 350 BC - 275 BC |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Head of the nymph Terina facing left, her hair elaborately coiffed and bound, rendered in the South Italian Greek style characteristic of the late Classical period. The effigy occupies the full field of the flan, with soft facial features including a delicate profile and gently parted lips. The hair is swept back in wavy locks falling to the neck, with a stephane or diadem visible atop the head. No legend appears on the obverse. The flan is irregular and the surfaces exhibit typical patination of a circulated bronze issue. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Terina was a Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian coast of Bruttium, founded by Croton in the late sixth century BC. By the fourth century the city was prosperous enough to strike some of the finest silver coinage in Magna Graecia, but its bronze issues like this one served the grinding demands of local market exchange that electrum and silver could not practically meet. The city was destroyed — probably by the Bruttians — sometime around 280–275 BC, making the lower end of this type's date range essentially its terminus.