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| Issuer | Sardes (Lydia) |
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| Year | 133 BC - 14 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Dionysos facing right, crowned with a wreath of ivy leaves and berries rendered in fine relief. The deity's long, flowing locks fall behind the neck in the Hellenistic manner, lending the portrait a youthful, sensuous character typical of late-Republican-period civic bronze coinage from Lydia. The field is plain, with no legend present on the obverse. |
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| Reverse description | A horned lion strides powerfully to the left in the field, its head turned to face the viewer frontally, biting and breaking a spear held crosswise in its jaws — the ancient civic emblem of Sardis. The body is rendered with musculature and a raised, curling tail, conveying vigorous movement. The ethnic legend ΣΑΡΔΙ / ΑΝΩΝ is inscribed in two lines above the animal's back, and a monogram appears in the lower field beneath the lion. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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