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| Issuer | Cranii (Elis) |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a boar advancing to the right, rendered in bold relief within a radiate border of fine incuse lines encircling the central device. The animal's musculature is summarily but vigorously modelled in the archaic Greek provincial style. The field is otherwise plain, with no legend or additional devices. |
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| Reverse script | Ancient Greek |
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Cranii was one of the four principal cities of Cephalonia, the largest of the Ionian islands, and maintained its own civic coinage independently of its neighbors Pale, Same, and Proni. The attribution to Elis in older references like BMC Greek reflects a now-superseded classification system; HGC 6 correctly reassigns this type to Cephallenia. Small bronze issues of this kind served local exchange at a granular level that silver coinage simply could not reach in a community of Cranii's modest size.