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Hekte
| Issuer | Phokaia |
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| Year | 478 BC - 387 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Bodenstedt#73 |
| Obverse description | Facing left, the bearded head of Pan rendered in high relief, exhibiting the deity's characteristic features including a snub nose, prominent brow, and tousled hair falling in thick strands behind the neck. A small seal (phoca), the civic badge of Phokaia, is depicted in the right field facing downward, serving as the city's heraldic emblem and punning device. The portrait is executed in a bold, archaic-to-transitional style with confident engraving, typical of the finest Phokaian electrum coinage of the fifth and early fourth centuries BC. The flan is slightly irregular, as is characteristic of hand-struck electrum hektes of this period. |
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| Reverse description | A quadripartite incuse square dominates the reverse, divided into four recessed compartments of roughly equal size by a raised cross, a standard reverse type employed on Phokaian electrum hektes produced by the hammered technique. The incuse design is deeply struck and exhibits a granular, textured surface within each quadrant, consistent with the irregular flan preparation typical of archaic Greek electrum coinage. No legend or subsidiary devices are present; the design is purely geometric and functional, serving to distribute metal evenly across the flan during striking. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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