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Chalkon
| Issuer | Ainos |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Weight | 1.36 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Hermes facing left, wearing a broad-brimmed petasos with the brim rendered in relief; the youthful facial features are modelled in the archaic-classical tradition characteristic of Ainean coinage. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, with a dark green patina obscuring fine surface detail. |
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| Reverse description | A human hand, depicted frontally and rendered in bold relief, grasps the staff of a caduceus whose twin serpents entwine upward toward the top of the field; to the left stands a grain ear in profile, and to the right a crescent. The composition fills the flan with no encircling legend, reflecting the city's reliance on emblematic types rather than inscriptions for this minor denomination. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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