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Nomos
| Issuer | Kaulonia |
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| Year | 420 BC - 410 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Apollo depicted in full nude figure, striding vigorously to the right with both arms outstretched, holding a laurel branch in his raised right hand. A small running figure, identified as a daimon, is shown upon the god's extended left arm. To the left of the main figure, a stag stands with head turned back, rendered in fine archaic-to-early-classical style. The composition fills the broad, slightly irregular flan with confident, deeply struck relief. |
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| Reverse script | Ancient Greek |
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Kaulonia was an Achaean colony on the Bruttian coast, and its monetary output ceased abruptly around 389 BC when Dionysius I of Syracuse razed the city entirely, selling its population into slavery. The nomoi struck in the decade before that destruction are among the last expressions of a functioning civic mint — not a declining one. Kaulonia's silver was struck to the Achaean weight standard, which it shared with neighbors including Croton and Metapontum, facilitating regional trade across the toe of Italy.
Noe's die study remains the foundational reference for this series.