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Drachm
| Issuer | Terina |
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| Year | 300 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Nike, the goddess of victory, seated left upon a cippus (a low cylindrical funerary monument), attired in chiton and himation. She extends her right hand forward to present a caduceus, while her left hand rests upon the cippus. The figure is rendered with fine drapery detail characteristic of late Classical Greek coinage from Bruttium. The field is unlettered. |
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| Mint | Terina |
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Terina was a Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian coast of Bruttium, founded by settlers from Croton in the late sixth century. By the early third century the city was already in terminal decline, squeezed between the expanding Bruttian tribes inland and Roman pressure from the north. This drachm belongs to the final phase of the mint's activity — within a generation, Terina had effectively ceased to exist as an independent polis, its population dispersed and its coinage discontinued entirely.
The SNG ANS references narrow this to a well-documented die group, which is useful given how frequently Terinaean fractions are misattributed to neighboring Crotoniate workshops.