Catalog
Chalkon
| Issuer | Magnetes |
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| Year | 150 BC - 130 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing left, depicted in fine Hellenistic style with carefully rendered hair bound by a wreath. The portrait is set within a beaded border, with the youthful effigy displaying slightly idealized facial features characteristic of late-second-century BC Thessalian bronze coinage. The high-relief portrait fills much of the flan, with the hair falling in locks behind the neck. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Artemis advancing rapidly to the right in hunting posture, depicted nude or lightly draped, with a chlamys billowing behind her. She holds a bow in her outstretched hand and reaches back toward a quiver at her shoulder, rendered in dynamic Hellenistic style. The ethnic legend ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ is inscribed vertically in two lines flanking the figure, identifying the issuing authority of the Magnetes in Thessaly. The overall composition is vigorous and characteristic of the regional bronze coinage of the period. |
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