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| Issuer | Larissa Phrikonis (Aeolis) |
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| Year | 350 BC - 300 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Draped female head facing left, hair elaborately bound in a sakkos with loose tresses visible at the nape and crown. A pendant earring, likely crescent-shaped, is discernible below the ear, adding refinement to the portrait. The facial features are rendered in the Hellenistic style characteristic of Aeolian civic coinage of the fourth century BC, with softly modeled cheeks and a well-defined profile. No legend appears in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (350 BC - 300 BC) |
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Larissa Phrikonis was a minor Aeolian settlement whose civic identity was closely tied to the promontory of Phrikonis, and bronze issues of this type represent the town exercising autonomous coinage rights during a period when much of the region was cycling through Persian satrapal control, Macedonian hegemony, and the aftermath of Alexander's campaigns. That this small polis struck at all is the more interesting point.
The BMC Greek and Waddington references place this squarely within a well-documented but sparsely populated series.