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| Issuer | Parion |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Facing gorgoneion (head of Medusa) depicted full face, with wide-open eyes, prominent serpentine locks radiating symmetrically around the visage, and a broad nose and open mouth rendered in archaic style. The head is centrally placed within the field, framed by a beaded border. The treatment of the snaky hair is bold and stylized, characteristic of Hellenistic civic bronze coinage of Mysia. |
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| Mintage | ND - 2nd -1st century BC |
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Parion, the Greek colony on the southern shore of the Propontis, controlled one of the few reliable anchorages along that stretch of coast and maintained its mint intermittently through the Hellenistic period well into Roman provincial times. The SNG France 1404 reference places this piece within a sequence tied to civic bronze issues that circulated locally rather than regionally — Parion never achieved the monetary reach of Cyzicus, its more powerful neighbor to the east.