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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Kalchedon |
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| Year | 387 BC - 340 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in fine archaic-to-classical Greek style with delicately curled hair drawn back from the forehead and bound with a laurel wreath. The facial features are idealized, with a straight nose, slightly parted lips, and a well-modeled ear visible in profile. The portrait is set within a broad, unadorned field with no legend or border, the full face filling the flan. |
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| Reverse description | A four-spoked radiate wheel with a central boss, set within a shallow circular incuse bordered by a raised ring. The Greek letters Κ, Α, and Λ — abbreviating the city ethnic ΚΑΛΧΑΔΟΝΙΩΝ (Kalchedon) — are distributed one per quarter between the spokes. The design is bold and geometric, consistent with the civic coinage tradition of Bithynian Greek cities of the fourth century BC. |
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| Reverse lettering | Κ Α Λ |
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