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Litra
| Issuer | Segesta (Sicily) |
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| Year | 465 BC - 450 BC |
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| Value | 1 Litra |
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| Obverse description | A hunting hound rendered in fine archaic Greek style, depicted in full gallop to the right with all four legs extended in a flying leap, tail raised. The animal's musculature is rendered with considerable skill given the diminutive flan size. A dotted border runs along the upper periphery of the coin, framing the design within the irregular flan. |
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| Reverse description | Facing bust of the eponymous nymph Segesta in right profile, her hair swept up into a krobylos and secured by a pearl diadem, rendered in the elegant archaic style characteristic of early Sicilian coinage. The portrait is contained within a shallow circular incuse square, a technique typical of early western Greek silver coinage. The retrograde Greek ethnic legend ΣΕΓΕΣΤΑΖΙΒ is inscribed around the periphery of the incuse field. |
| Reverse script | Greek, Greek (retrograde) |
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