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Obol
| Issuer | Nagidos |
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| Year | 400 BC - 380 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Bearded head of Dionysos facing right, rendered in early Classical style with expressive naturalism. The god's hair is depicted in wavy strands swept back from the forehead, and a short beard frames his face. An ivy wreath, the traditional attribute of Dionysos, crowns his head. The portrait is contained within a beaded border on the irregular hammered flan, with no visible legend, consistent with the early issues of Nagidos. |
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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.