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Diobol
| Issuer | Phanagoreia |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
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| Value | Diobol (⅓) |
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| Reverse description | Forepart of a bull advancing to the left, its head turned sharply to face the viewer three-quarter front, with prominent curved horns and a heavily modelled dewlap rendered in bold relief. The abbreviated civic ethnic ΦΑ (for Phanagoreia) is inscribed above the bull's back in Greek majuscule letters. To the right of the bull stands an upright barley grain, a symbol of the city's agricultural prosperity and its pivotal role in the grain trade of the northern Black Sea region. The overall composition is compact and well-centred within the irregular flan, characteristic of hammered coinage of this period. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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