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Dichalkon
| Issuer | Proerna |
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| Year | 306 BC - 283 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of a local nymph, her head turned slightly to the right, rendered in archaic Thessalian style. The hair is bound with a simple tainia (hair band), and a pendant earring is visible at her right ear. The facial features are rendered with broad, expressive strokes characteristic of late Classical Greek provincial bronzework. The field is plain, with no surrounding legend. |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of Demeter standing facing, her head turned to the left, depicted in flowing robes in the Classical Greek tradition. She holds a long torch in her raised left hand and two ears of wheat in her right hand, emblems of her agricultural and chthonic aspects. The ethnic inscription ΠΡΩΕΡΝΙΩΝ arcs around the figure, identifying the issuing community of Proerna. The Greek letter Φ appears in the left field, likely serving as a magistrate's or mint control mark. |
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Proerna was a minor Thessalian city whose autonomous bronze coinage was produced within a narrow window before the region fell under increasingly tight Macedonian administrative control. The city appears in ancient sources primarily as a member of the Thessalian League, and its independent issues are few enough that BCD Thessaly I lists only a handful of die combinations for this type.
Rogers 534 remains the standard citation, though the BCD specimen offered richer die documentation when it sold.