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Æ19

Issuer Alaisa Archonidea
Year 95 BC - 44 BC
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Diameter 19 mm
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Obverse description Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic style with finely detailed long hair falling in wavy locks behind the neck and adorned with a laurel wreath. The god's idealized youthful profile is strongly modeled, with a pronounced brow and sharply delineated facial features. The field is plain, with no legend on the obverse.
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Reverse description Apollo depicted standing in three-quarter view to the left, his right hand extended and holding a filleted laurel branch, while his left arm rests upon a kithara set to his left. A ligated APX monogram appears in the left field. The ethnic legend ΑΛΑΙ-ΣΑΣ ΑΡΧ is distributed across the reverse field, identifying the issuing city of Alaisa Archonidea in Sicily.
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Mint Alaisa Archonidea (Sicily)
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