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| 背面描述 | Bull standing to left, head turned back to right in the incuse square, rendered in profile with musculature carefully articulated. The ethnic inscription ΠΑ/ΡΙ appears divided across the field, identifying the issuing city of Parion. The composition is set within a shallow incuse square, a hallmark of early Hellenistic coinage from this mint. |
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| 边缘 | Rough |
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Parion, the Mysian Greek colony on the eastern shore of the Propontis, struck hemidrachms of this type through much of the fourth century using a facing-gorgoneion obverse type that the city had maintained with unusual conservatism for generations. The type persisted long after most Greek mints had abandoned archaic facing heads, suggesting deliberate civic identity rather than artistic lag.
The colony's position on the Propontis gave it outsized commercial relevance relative to its size, sitting astride the sea lane connecting the Aegean to the Black Sea grain trade.