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| 裏面の説明 | A sea eagle displayed in left profile, wings folded, perched atop a dolphin oriented to the left. The eagle's talons grip the dolphin's back, a powerful emblem of Istros as a maritime Black Sea colony. The ethnic inscription ΙΣΤΡΙΗ appears in the upper field in archaic Greek characters, with the denomination letter Δ (delta) in the lower field below the dolphin. The design is executed in a bold, somewhat provincial Greek style characteristic of Pontic mint production of the 4th century BC. |
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| 裏面の銘文 | ΙΣΤΡΙΗ Δ (Translation: Istros) |
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Istros, a Milesian colony on the western Black Sea coast near the Danube delta, developed a notably independent coinage tradition by the fourth century BC. The city's fractional silver — including pieces at this weight — circulated alongside larger denominations bearing the famous inverted heads, a type unique to Istros whose exact iconographic meaning remains unresolved among scholars.
SG 1669–1670 encompasses some die variation across the type's production span.