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Obol
| Issuer | Heraia |
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| Year | 430 BC - 370 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Facing left, the bare head of a youthful male figure rendered in archaic Greek style, with carefully detailed hair swept back from the brow and curling softly at the nape of the neck. The facial features display the characteristic naturalism of late Archaic and early Classical Peloponnesian coinage, with a well-defined jaw and pronounced eye socket. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, typical of hand-struck silver coinage of this period and region. |
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| Reverse description | A large bold archaic Greek letter Epsilon (Ε), the initial of Heraia, occupies the central field of the reverse, executed with broad, confident strokes in incuse relief. To the left of the Epsilon, a small ivy or vine leaf motif is faintly discernible, serving as a secondary civic symbol. The die is set within a roughly incuse square, and the irregular flan shows the characteristic flan cracks and uneven edges typical of hand-struck Arcadian silver coinage of the fifth and early fourth centuries BC. |
| Reverse script | Ancient Greek |
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