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| Issuer | Kingdom of Salamis, Cyprus |
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| Year | 411 BC - 374 BC |
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| Weight | 11.12 g |
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| Obverse description | Nude youthful Herakles seated to right upon a rocky outcrop draped with a lion skin, his right arm resting upon a club set to ground and his left hand raising a rhyton. The figure is rendered in archaic Cypriot style with careful attention to musculature. The scene is set within a linear square border characteristic of Cypriot coinage of this period. |
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| Obverse script | Cypriot |
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| Reverse description | A goat recumbent to right, its head turned back to the left with horns clearly delineated, rendered in fine relief within a linear square border. Cypriot syllabic inscriptions appear in the field to the left and above the animal, identifying the issuing authority. A dotted exergual line runs beneath the goat, and additional Cypriot syllabic characters appear in the right field. |
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