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Æ33 - Valerian and Gallienus ΑΡΓΕΙωΝ, Ι-Α
| Issuer | Argos (Achaea) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
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| Weight | 18.14 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Perseus standing facing, head averted to the left to avoid the petrifying gaze of Medusa, whose severed head he holds aloft in his lowered right hand. In his left hand he carries the harpa, the hooked sword used to slay the Gorgon, along with the chlamys cloak draped over the arm. The reverse type alludes to the mythological hero Perseus, legendary founder of Argos, making it a quintessential civic type for this Peloponnesian mint. The Greek legend in the field gives the ethnic of the Argives along with a numeral denoting a local era or magistracy. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΡΓΕΙωΝ, Ι-Α (Translation: of the Argives, 11) |
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