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Obol
| Issuer | Massalia |
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| Year | 450 BC - 410 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Bare male head facing left, depicted with long flowing hair; the helmet adorning the head features a wheel of four spokes as a crest ornament on the bowl, a distinctive device closely associated with Massalian coinage of the early period. The style is archaic Greek, with the facial features rendered in low relief typical of Phocaean colonial mint production. |
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| Reverse description | A wheel of four spokes with concave, slightly curved arms radiating from a raised central pellet boss, all contained within a plain incuse circular border. The quadripartite wheel design, emblematic of Massalia, fills the field entirely and is rendered in a bold, schematic style characteristic of hammered archaic coinage from this Phocaean colony. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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