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Hemidrachm
| Uitgever | Thessalian League |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 470 BC - 460 BC |
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| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Drachm |
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| Gewicht | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Forepart of a prancing horse advancing to right, rendered in bold archaic relief against a plain field. The animal is depicted with musculature carefully articulated, its mane rendered with fine incised lines, forelegs raised in dynamic motion. The design fills the broadly oval, irregular flan characteristic of early Thessalian coinage, with no border or legend present. |
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| Schrift keerzijde | Greek |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
The Thessalian League's federal coinage of this period reflects one of the earliest sustained experiments in Greek interstate monetary cooperation, where individual poleis subordinated their civic minting traditions to a shared federal issue. The arrangement was politically fragile — Thessaly's aristocratic tagoi exercised loose authority over member cities, and the federation dissolved and reformed repeatedly across the fifth century.
BCD Thessaly II#13 places this hemidrachm among the earliest attributable federal issues, predating the disruptions of the Peloponnesian War that would fragment Thessalian political coherence considerably.