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| Issuer | Nysa on the Maeander (Lydia) |
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| Year | 150 BC - 30 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Jugate busts of Hades and Kore (Persephone) facing right, rendered in profile; Hades is depicted laureate with a full beard and abundant hair, while Kore appears immediately behind, her head slightly offset to the right. The modelling of the hair and facial features is executed in the confident Hellenistic tradition characteristic of civic Lydian bronzes. No legend is visible in the field or along the rim. |
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| Reverse description | Dionysos depicted standing left in full figure, wearing a kalathos on his head and long drapery; he extends his right hand to hold a kantharos and raises his left arm to support a filleted thyrsos resting against his shoulder. A Greek civic legend is distributed in the field to either side of the deity, identifying the issuing city of Nysa. The composition is rendered in the bold, slightly schematic style typical of late Hellenistic provincial bronze coinage. |
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| Mint | Nysa on the Maeander |
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