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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Parion (Mysia) |
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| Year | 350 BC - 320 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Bull striding to left with head turned back to face right, rendered in high relief with musculature finely detailed. A dolphin is depicted in the lower field beneath the bull, serving as a civic emblem of Parion. The ethnic inscription ΠΑ ΡΙ appears divided in the upper field, flanking the bull's body. The composition fills the flan with confident, naturalistic draftsmanship characteristic of fourth-century Mysian coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΠΑ ΡΙ |
| Reverse description | Facing gorgoneion rendered in bold, apotropaic style, occupying the entire field of the die. The Gorgon's face is depicted with wide, staring eyes, a broad grimacing mouth with protruding tongue and bared teeth, and serpentine hair coiling outward around the periphery of the flan. The high-relief modelling and expressive, frontal composition are hallmarks of the archaic-derived gorgoneion type perpetuated in Parian civic coinage through the fourth century BC. No legend or inscription accompanies the design. |
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