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Diobol
| Issuer | Phanagoreia |
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| Year | 390 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Head of Aphrodite facing left, wearing a stephane or laureate wreath, with flowing hair rendered in fine wavy strands falling to the neck. The portrait is executed in the archaic-to-early classical Greek style, with delicate facial features, a prominent nose, and a slightly parted lip. The flan is irregular and the die is well-centered, with the bust filling most of the field. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Forepart of a bull facing left, head lowered, rendered in bold relief with naturalistic anatomical detail. To the right of the bull's head, a sturdy ear of grain (wheat or barley) is depicted vertically, flanked by an additional stalk or leaf, symbolizing the agricultural wealth of the Bosporan region. Above the devices, the abbreviated civic legend ΦΑΝΑ is inscribed in archaic Greek characters across the upper field. The composition is contained within a shallow incuse square, characteristic of early Greek coinage from the Black Sea colonies. |
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