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Dichalkon
| Issuer | Gyrton |
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| Year | 340 BC - 330 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Head of the nymph Gyrtone facing left, her hair elaborately dressed and bound up in a sakkos or rolled coiffure. She is adorned with a pendant earring and a beaded necklace, rendered in the fine style characteristic of late Classical Thessalian coinage. The ethnic inscription ΓΥΡΤΩΝΙΩΝ arcs around the field, identifying the issuing community of Gyrton. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΓΥΡΤΩΝΙΩΝ |
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Gyrton was a minor Thessalian polis situated in the Peneios valley, and its bronze coinage is among the scarcest municipal issues from the region. The city's political significance was largely absorbed by Larissa, its dominant neighbor, which may explain why the autonomous bronze series is so compressed — likely produced during a brief window of civic assertiveness before Macedonian consolidation under Philip II effectively ended independent municipal minting across Thessaly.
The BCD collection reference here is notable: Triton IX (2006) remains the primary auction source for die-linked specimens of this type.