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Diobol
| Issuer | Pergamon |
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| Year | 310 BC - 282 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Youthful head of Herakles in right profile, clad in the Nemean lion skin headdress, the scalp knotted beneath the chin with paws visible at the neck. The facial features are rendered in the Lysippan tradition, with strong brow, slightly parted lips, and naturalistically detailed curling hair emerging beneath the lion skin. The flan is irregular and slightly off-center, characteristic of early Hellenistic hammered coinage from Asia Minor. |
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| Reverse description | Archaistic cult statue of Pallas Athena (Palladion) depicted standing facing, rendered in rigid, frontal archaic style, holding an upright spear in the right hand and a round shield in the left. The figure conveys deliberate archaism, evoking the sacred xoanon venerated at Pergamon. The ethnic inscription ΠΕΡΓΑ appears in the left field in Greek characters, identifying the issuing city. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΠΕΡΓΑ |
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