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Obol
| Issuer | Siris |
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| Year | 525 BC - 480 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Nude female figure rendered in archaic style, seated facing with knees drawn upward, her head turned to the right and adorned with a beaded or berry-clustered coiffure. The figure holds a spherical object — likely a ball or pomegranate — before her chest with both hands. A palm branch or olive sprig appears in the left field. The rendering is bold and plastic, characteristic of the South Italian archaic coinage tradition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Siris, a Greek colonial city on the Tarentine Gulf in Lucania, was destroyed by a coalition of neighboring cities — Sybaris, Croton, and Metapontum — around 530 BC, making the precise attribution of coins to this issuer genuinely contested. Some scholars argue production under the Siris name had effectively ceased before this date range begins, with surviving pieces possibly struck by successor populations or during the city's final years before erasure.