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| Issuer | Phokaia (Ionia) |
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| Year | 387 BC - 326 BC |
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| Weight | 2.56 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped female head facing left, rendered in fine archaic-to-classical style with elaborately striated hair swept back and tied, the locks falling in layered waves behind the neck. The facial features are delicately modeled with a straight profile, almond-shaped eye, and slightly parted lips characteristic of Phocaean artistic convention. Below the neck truncation, a small seal (phoca) serves as the civic badge of Phokaia. The relief is high and crisply struck, the field plain. |
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| Reverse description | Quadripartite incuse square deeply punched into the flan, divided into four recessed compartments of unequal depth by two intersecting raised ridges, creating an asymmetric mill-sail or swastika-like pattern typical of early Phocaean electrum coinage. The incuse impression is irregular in outline, reflecting hand-struck hammered manufacture. The surrounding field shows the natural convex surface of the electrum flan with no additional devices or inscriptions. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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