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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Parion (Mysia) |
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| Year | 350 BC - 320 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A bull standing to the left in high relief, head turned back to face the viewer, with musculature rendered in a vigorous naturalistic style. The ethnic inscription ΠΑ ΡΙ (for ΠΑΡΙΩΝ, of the Parians) is distributed around the figure in the field — Π and Α in the upper field flanking the bull's hindquarters and horns, and Ρ (rho) beneath the body, serving as the civic abbreviation of the issuing city of Parion. The composition is compact and well-centered within the irregular flan, consistent with the hammered coinage tradition of fourth-century Mysia. |
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| Mintage | ND (350 BC - 320 BC) |
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Parion, a Greek colony on the Propontis founded by Miletus and Erythrae, maintained its own silver coinage long after many neighboring cities had ceded monetary autonomy to Macedonian authority. This hemidrachm falls squarely within the period of Philip II's expanding influence across the Hellespont corridor — yet Parion continued striking independently, likely sustained by its position controlling critical Propontine trade routes between the Aegean and the Black Sea.
The Lockett 2713 reference places this piece within the famous R.C. Lockett collection, dispersed by Glendining's across four sales between 1955 and 1961.