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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Aigai (Achaia) |
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| Year | 425 BC - 375 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Bearded head of Dionysos facing right, his flowing hair bound with a wreath of ivy leaves rendered in fine detail. The face displays mature, naturalistic modeling with deeply set eyes and a full beard. The ethnic legend ΑΙCΑΙΟΝ is inscribed in the right field in archaic Greek characters, identifying the issuing city of Aigai. |
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Aigai was a minor Achaian city on the southern coast of the Corinthian Gulf, consistently overshadowed by its more powerful neighbors. Its coinage output was modest and brief, which is precisely why SNG Copenhagen records so few die combinations for the type. Most surviving specimens come from hoard contexts rather than excavation, suggesting the coins circulated well beyond their region of issue before being gathered and buried.