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Drachm
| Issuer | Kolophon |
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| Year | 450 BC - 410 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in fine archaic-to-early classical Greek style, with delicate facial features and long hair partially visible beneath a laurel wreath. A beaded necklace adorns the deity's neck, and the effigy is set within a plain circular field without legend or border. The portrait occupies the full flan, exhibiting confident die-cutting characteristic of Ionian mint production of the mid-fifth century BC. |
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| Reverse description | A six-stringed kithara depicted facing, with elegantly curved arms, a crossbar, and clearly articulated strings, set at center within a shallow incuse square of recessed field. The instrument's resonating body and decorative scroll-ends to the arms are rendered with considerable detail for the coin's small module. No legend appears; the incuse technique is characteristic of early classical Ionian coinage. The granular field texture surrounding the kithara provides strong visual contrast to the raised instrument. |
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| Mintage | ND (450 BC - 410 BC) |
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