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| Issuer | Phaistos (Crete (ancient)) |
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| Year | 322 BC - 300 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Heracles seated left upon a lion's skin draped over a rocky outcrop, his head turned slightly to the right; a club rests vertically against his left leg. In the left field, a tree from whose branches hang his bow and quiver. Behind the figure, a large amphora stands in the field. The composition is rendered in the vigorous archaic-to-classical Cretan style, with the ethnic legend ΦAIΣTIΩN inscribed in the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΦAIΣTIΩN |
| Reverse description | A bull charging to the right in an aggressive butting posture, rendered with considerable plastic detail in the musculature of the body and forelegs; the animal is depicted with head lowered and horns directed forward. The entire type is enclosed within a broad olive wreath whose leafy branches encircle the field, the whole contained within a plain raised border. The reverse die is engraved in the characteristic Cretan style of the late fourth century BC. |
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