Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Myshemihekte
| Issuer | Phokaia |
|---|---|
| Year | 625 BC - 522 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Drachm |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Confronting head of a roaring lion rendered in high relief, facing left, with open jaws revealing teeth, a prominent round eye, and a mane depicted by bold radiating striations across the neck and forehead. A small seal (phoke), the civic badge of Phokaia, appears in the right field adjacent to the lion's head. The design is executed in the archaic Ionian style characteristic of early electrum coinage from the region. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Plain quadripartite incuse square deeply impressed into the flan, divided by raised ridges into four unequal rectangular compartments of varying depth. The incuse punch is irregular in outline, consistent with early archaic hammered coinage technique, with no additional devices or inscriptions present in the field. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Phokaia |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information | Log in to see details |