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Diobol
| Issuer | Argos |
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| Year | 280 BC - 260 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Head of Hera in right profile, wearing an elaborately ornamented stephanos. The hair is rendered in wavy locks falling to the neck, and the facial features display a refined Peloponnesian style characteristic of early Hellenistic coinage. The goddess's portrait fills the flan with a broad, well-centred style typical of Argive silver issues of this period. |
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| Reverse description | The Palladion depicted facing, rendered as a rigid archaic cult statue of Athena standing frontally with a spear raised in the right hand and a shield held at the left side. The figure is shown in a stylised, hieratic pose consistent with the traditional representation of this sacred image on Argive coinage. The design occupies the full field of the coin with no surrounding legend. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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