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Issuer	Thespiai (Boeotia)
Year	210 BC
Type	Standard circulation coin
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Obverse description	Draped female head in right profile, wearing a modius (grain measure) and veil, rendered in low relief with somewhat archaic provincial style. The facial features, though worn, retain a serene expression characteristic of Hellenistic portraiture. The modius and veil are attributes commonly associated with Isis-Demeter syncretism in the Hellenistic period. The field is plain and unlettered.
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Reverse description	A chelys (tortoise-shell lyre) depicted facing, centrally positioned in the field, rendered in bold relief with clearly articulated strings and resonating body. The chelys was the civic emblem of Thespiai and its presence identifies the issuing city. The ethnic legend ΘΕΣ-ΠΙΕΩΝ is disposed in two lines flanking the instrument, left and right, in Greek characters. The coin's reverse design is characteristic of Thespian civic bronze coinage of the late Hellenistic period.
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