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Siglos
| Issuer | Uncertain Cypriot city |
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| Year | 460 BC - 430 BC |
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| Weight | 10.72 g |
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| Obverse description | Bull kneeling to right upon a straight ground line, rendered in high relief with boldly modelled musculature. Above the animal, a bare fir-tree trunk is depicted horizontally, its stripped branches visible in the upper field. The composition is characteristic of the Archaic-to-Classical Cypriot coinage tradition, with no legend or inscription present in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (460 BC - 430 BC) |
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Cyprus in the mid-fifth century BC sat uneasily between Persian administrative control and persistent Greek cultural pull — the decade following the Peace of Callias in 449 BC saw several Cypriot cities reasserting local identity through coinage while technically remaining within the Achaemenid sphere. Attribution of uninscribed Cypriot silver to specific mints remains genuinely contested; die-link studies have been the primary tool for grouping issues, but consensus is slow and frequently revised.
The siglos weight standard adopted here reflects Persian influence on the island's monetary conventions rather than the Aeginetan or Euboic standards dominant on the Greek mainland.