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Nomos
| Issuer | Laos (Lucania) |
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| Year | 510 BC - 500 BC |
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| Value | Nomos (3) |
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| Obverse description | Man-headed bull depicted in walking stance to the right, the human head turned back (reverted) in three-quarter view, personifying the river god Laos. The figure is rendered in fine archaic relief with careful attention to musculature. The ethnic legend ΛAFΣ appears in the upper field. A raised exergual line composed of a row of pellets between two horizontal lines defines the lower border of the design, a hallmark of early South Italian coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Incuse mirror image of the obverse type, struck in the characteristic early Achaean incuse technique: the man-headed bull is rendered as a sunken relief, reversed left-to-right relative to the obverse. The design is framed by an incuse wreath border of olive or laurel, visible as a ring of stylized leaves running around the entire circumference of the reverse field, consistent with the early South Italian coinage tradition of Sybaris and its colonies. |
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