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Dichalkon
| Issuer | Methydrion |
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| Year | 370 BC - 340 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Zeus in profile facing right, rendered in archaic-to-early classical Arcadian style. The deity's hair is depicted in layered strands beneath the laurel wreath, with a strong, idealised facial profile characteristic of Peloponnesian bronze coinage of the fourth century BC. The portrait occupies the central field of the flan with no surrounding legend. |
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| Reverse description | Kallisto depicted in dramatic three-quarter pose, seated and falling backwards to the left with both arms outstretched, an arrow piercing her breast — referencing the mythological episode of her transformation. Below her recumbent figure, the infant Arkas lies on his back, arms raised upward toward his mother. The composition is confined to the central field of the flan without encircling legend, rendered in the compact, expressive style typical of Arcadian civic bronzes. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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