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Æ18

Issuer Gyrton
Year 350 BC - 300 BC
Type Standard circulation coin
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Reverse description A horse advancing to the left in a lively, naturalistic pose, its body rendered in solid relief with the tail raised and legs in motion. The ethnic legend ΓΥΡΤ appears in the upper field and ΩΝΙΩΝ in the lower field, divided by the horse's body, identifying the issuing city of Gyrton in Thessaly. A monogram appears beneath the horse's body in the lower field.
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Gyrton was a minor Thessalian city on the Peneios River, and its bronze coinage from this period is rarely encountered outside specialist collections. The SNG Copenhagen and Rogers references place this firmly within a small, consistent civic series — but Gyrton left almost no literary footprint, which makes its coins among the few surviving evidence of the city's autonomous functioning before Macedonian administrative consolidation reshaped Thessalian civic life in the late fourth century.

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