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Dinomos
| Issuer | Sybaris |
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| Year | 350 BC - 300 BC |
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| Value | Dinomos (6) |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, wearing a crested Attic helmet adorned with a figure of Scylla in the act of hurling a stone, rendered in fine archaic style with strong relief. The goddess's facial features are sharply delineated, with a prominent profile and carefully worked hair visible beneath the helmet brow. The overall composition reflects the high-quality die engraving characteristic of South Italian Greek coinage of the late classical period. |
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| Reverse description | A bull charging and butting to the right, rendered with great naturalistic vitality and powerful musculature; a small figure, possibly a man or Herakles, appears to be grasped beneath the bull near its hindquarters, a motif associated with the Sybarite civic type. A ground line separates the principal device from the exergue, within which appear the Greek letters H and PA flanking a cornucopia, forming a partial ethnic reference to the city. The die engraving is accomplished in fine high relief, consistent with the distinguished tradition of Lucanian Greek coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | H – PA |
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