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Drachm - Zenodotos and Mandragoros
| Issuer | Samos |
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| Year | 408 BC - 366 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Obverse description | Facing lion scalp rendered in high relief, depicted frontally with bold, naturalistic detail. The mane radiates dramatically outward, filling the flan with deeply incised, flowing locks arranged in a symmetrical sunburst pattern. The broad muzzle is rendered with expressive plasticity, conveying the ferocity characteristic of Samian lion-scalp types. The entire design occupies the full field, leaving no exergue or border inscription, consistent with the archaic-to-classical artistic tradition of eastern Greek coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Samos maintained its own silver coinage through much of the fifth and fourth centuries, but the magistrate-signed issues — naming individual officials responsible for the emission — represent a relatively brief administrative practice. Zenodotos and Mandragoros appear together on a small cluster of dies, suggesting a single jointly-supervised issue rather than sequential tenures. The SNG Kayhan 665 reference places this squarely within the post-413 period when Samos had rebuilt enough civic autonomy, following the Athenian disaster in Sicily and the subsequent Ionian revolt, to reassert independent monetary production.