Catalog
Æ20 ΕΛΑΤΕΩΝ, Elatea
| Issuer | Elatea |
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| Year | 50 BC - 1 BC |
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| Diameter | 20 mm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Athena Kranaia facing right, wearing a Corinthian helmet set back on the head; the bust is rendered in a bold, somewhat provincial style. The design is framed by a prominent dotted border running around the entire field, characteristic of late Hellenistic Phokian civic coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Elatea, the principal city of Phocis, had lost much of its strategic importance after its brutal sack by Philip II of Macedon in 338 BC — an event so alarming to Athens that Demosthenes famously described the city's terror upon hearing the news. By the late Republican period when this bronze was struck, the city was a shadow of its former self, minting small civic bronzes more out of civic habit than economic necessity, under the loose administrative umbrella of Roman provincial oversight in Achaia.