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| Issuer | Nagidos |
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| Year | 400 BC - 380 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SNG France#15, SNG Levante#3 |
| Obverse description | Draped bust of Aphrodite facing right, rendered in fine archaic-to-early Classical style. The goddess is depicted with carefully engraved wavy hair swept back, adorned with a triple-pendant earring visible at the ear. The portrait is set within a beaded border on the irregular flan, with the fine die work reflecting the skilled artisanship of Nagidian coinage of the early fourth century BC. |
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| Mint | Nagidos |
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Nagidos was a small Greek colonial city on the Cilician coast, near the mouth of the Nagidos river, and among the earliest mints in the region to strike autonomous silver. The city's coinage output was modest and brief — production appears to have ceased well before Cilicia fell under tighter Achaemenid administrative control later in the fourth century.
SNG Levante 3 places this among the foundational issues of the series.