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Æ - Philiskos, son of Konon
| Issuer | Erythrai |
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| Year | 275 BC - 220 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Bust of Herakles in right profile, the hero's head crowned with the scalp of the Nemean lion, its paws knotted at the neck. The rendering is naturalistic and vigorous, with carefully delineated curling locks visible beneath the lion-skin headdress. The musculature of the neck and the strong profile reflect Hellenistic artistic conventions closely associated with Alexandrine coinage prototypes. The field is plain, and the flan is slightly irregular, as is typical of civic bronze issues from Asia Minor. |
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| Reverse description | A bow within a bow-case (gorytos) is depicted horizontally across the upper field, serving as the principal type. The magistrate's name ΦΙΛΙΣΚΟΣ ΚΟΝΩΝΟΣ is inscribed across the center in two lines of Greek majuscules, with the civic ethnic ΕΡΥ (for Erythrai) completing the legend. In the lower field, a facing head of Herakles is shown in frontal view accompanied by a club, both rendered in low relief. The composition follows the standard civic bronze typology of Erythrai, with the magistrate's name identifying this as an issue of Philiskos, son of Konon. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΦΙΛΙΣΚΟΣ ΚΟΝΩΝΟΣ ΕΡΥ |
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