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Hemisiglos - Gorgias
| Issuer | Abydos |
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| Year | 350 BC - 325 BC |
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| Currency | Persian siglos |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in fine Classical Greek style, with flowing locks of hair escaping beneath a prominent wreath of laurel leaves tied at the crown. The facial features are delicately modeled, exhibiting the idealized, youthful physiognomy characteristic of late 4th-century Mysian coinage. The neck is bare, and the portrait fills the flan with confident, high-relief workmanship. |
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| Reverse description | Eagle standing left with wings closed, the plumage rendered in finely incised detail across the breast and folded wing feathers. A dolphin is depicted before the eagle in the lower left field, serving as a civic badge of Abydos. The Greek legend ABY (abbreviation for Abydos) appears to the left of the eagle, and ΓΟΡΓΙΑΣ (the magistrate's name, Gorgias) arcs around the upper right field, both inscriptions in retrograde-style archaic Greek lettering consistent with late Classical Mysian epigraphy. |
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| Reverse lettering | ABY ΓΟΡΓΙΑΣ |
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