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| Issuer | Adramyttion |
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| Year | 357 BC - 352 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male head in right profile, wearing a satrapal tiara or headdress rendered with finely incised detail. The facial features display a mature, authoritative character consistent with Persian-influenced Mysian coinage of the mid-4th century BC. The portrait is set within a plain circular field with no surrounding legend or inscription. |
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| Reverse description | Forepart of a winged boar striding to the right, the wings rendered in bold relief with detailed feathering visible above the shoulder. The boar's head is lowered in a naturalistic pose, with the foreleg extended. The design occupies the central field of the flan, with no encircling legend, characteristic of the small bronze coinage of Adramyttion. |
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Adramyttion — the Mysian coastal city known today as Edremit — had a complicated political existence in the mid-fourth century BC, oscillating between Persian satrapal control and Athenian influence during a period when the Aegean coastline was anything but settled. This small bronze issue falls squarely within the years of the Social War (357–355 BC), when Athens was fighting to retain its rebellious allies and Persian gold was quietly financing the opposition.
The McClean reference places this among a tightly grouped series, distinguished by fabric rather than imagery.