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Dichalkon
| Issuer | Skotoussa (Thessaly) |
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| Year | 367 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate male head facing right, rendered in fine archaic-to-early classical Greek style, with carefully engraved wreath leaves framing the brow and curling hair falling to the nape of the neck. The facial features are well modelled, presenting a strong jaw, prominent nose, and full lips. The portrait is set boldly within the coin's field with no surrounding legend, filling the flan in a characteristic manner of Thessalian civic bronze coinage of the fourth century BC. |
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| Reverse description | A large, naturalistic bunch of grapes suspended from a vine branch with tendrils, depicted in high relief at the centre of the field. The individual grapes are rendered as rounded pellets forming a full, pendulous cluster. The ethnic inscription ΣΚΟ, an abbreviation for Skotoussa, is distributed around the bunch in Greek letters, with a small circular symbol visible in the lower field below the cluster. The composition is compact and well-centred, a typical type for Thessalian civic bronze issues. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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