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Drachm
| Issuer | Kromna (Paphlagonia) |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
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| Weight | 3.62 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Zeus facing left, rendered in fine archaic-classical style with a full, flowing beard depicted in carefully engraved parallel locks, and wavy hair swept back beneath a laurel wreath; the bold, high-relief portrait fills most of the flan, with deeply modelled facial features characteristic of Paphlagonian civic coinage of the fourth century BC. |
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| Reverse lettering | KPΩMNA |
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Kromna was a minor Paphlagonan city whose independent coinage output was limited enough that its issues appear in only a handful of major collections worldwide. The city surfaces briefly in ancient sources — Strabo lists it among the coastal settlements of Paphlagonia — but its political history during this century is largely one of absorption, first under Persian satrapal influence and later into the orbit of Pontic power.
The Jameson reference places this among fewer than a dozen recorded specimens traced to that collection's 1913 catalog.