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Drachm
| Issuer | Skepsis |
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| Year | 500 BC - 400 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Rhyton in the form of the forepart of Pegasos to right, rendered in fine archaic style with prominent outstretched wings deeply striated to indicate feathers, the forelegs raised and the head turned slightly upward; the design fills the circular flan with bold, high relief characteristic of early Troadean coinage. |
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| Reverse description | A palm tree rendered in stylized linear form occupies the central field, flanked to left by a crab and to right by an AK monogram, the civic badge and initial of the mint city Skepsis; the entire composition is enclosed within a linear square border surrounded by the Greek ethnic legend, all set within a shallow incuse square typical of early fifth-century Troadean coinage convention. |
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Skepsis was a small Greek settlement in the Troad, the region surrounding ancient Troy, and its autonomous coinage was brief — the city later lost its independence to the Antigonid and then Seleucid spheres before being refounded by Antigonus I around 310 BC. That refounding effectively ended any distinctly Skepsian civic coinage. What survives from this fifth-century series is accordingly scarce, with specimens appearing rarely outside major institutional collections.