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Obol
| Issuer | Laranda |
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| Year | 324 BC - 323 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Forepart of a wolf striding right, depicted with a naturalistic treatment of the body featuring pronounced scale-like feathering on the chest and powerful forelegs, consistent with Lycaonian civic iconography. A monogram appears to the left of the figure in the field, and a six-pointed star is placed to the right. The type is contained within a beaded border on the irregular hammered flan, with no surrounding legend. |
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| Mintage | ND (324 BC - 323 BC) |
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Laranda was a city in Lycaonia, inland Anatolia, and this tiny silver piece dates to the period when Alexander the Great's campaigns had thoroughly disrupted regional monetary authority. Local civic issues of this type were struck under conditions of transitional control — Macedonian hegemony was nominal in many interior Anatolian cities, and minting continued under local arrangements. The SNG France#2311 variant designation suggests a die difference from the primary catalogued specimen, a detail worth noting given how few examples from Laranda survive in any form.