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Hemidrachm - Deiklos
| Issuer | Lebedos |
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| Year | 330 BC - 300 BC |
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| Value | 1/2 Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing left, wearing a crested Attic helmet with cheekpieces, rendered in the archaic-to-classical transitional style characteristic of Ionian coinage. The goddess's facial features are finely detailed, with visible eye, nose, and chin beneath the helmet's visor. Flowing locks of hair emerge beneath the helmet and fall along the neck. The flan is slightly irregular, as typical of hand-struck issues from this period. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΔHIKOΣ |
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Lebedos was among the least consequential of the twelve Ionian cities — so marginal, in fact, that Lysimachos forcibly synoikized its population into the newly founded Ephesos around 294 BC, effectively erasing the city. Coinage bearing the magistrate name Deiklos almost certainly predates that dissolution, placing these hemidrachms among the final municipal issues of a polis that ceased to exist by administrative fiat rather than conquest or catastrophe.