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Drachm
| Issuer | Gergis |
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| Year | 425 BC - 400 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Obverse description | Facing head of the goddess Cybele (or a local female deity), rendered in archaic Greek style with a wreath of leaves or hair radiating symmetrically around the face. The features are bold and stylized, with large almond-shaped eyes, a straight nose, and fleshy lips characteristic of late 5th-century BC Thracian-Aegean coinage. The image fills the flan, with the face presented in full frontal aspect, a striking and relatively rare orientation in Greek silver coinage of this period. |
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| Reverse description | A griffin or lion-griffin in a crouching or seated pose, rendered in profile facing left, with folded wings indicated by incised hatching and forepaws extended. The creature occupies the central field of the coin within an incuse square, consistent with early Greek hammered technique. The ethnic legend ΓΕΡΓΙΣΙΟ (retrograde or distributed around the figure) identifies the issuing city of Gergis in the Troad, the inscription divided across the field as ΓΕΡ / ΓΙΣ / ΙΟ. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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