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Stater
| Issuer | Uncertain Ionian city |
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| Year | 500 BC - 480 BC |
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| Value | Stater (1) |
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| Obverse description | Lion recumbent to right, rendered in finely detailed archaic style with scaled mane and open jaws, the body elongated and musculature clearly articulated. A lotus flower with spreading petals rises above the lion's back in the upper field. The design is executed in high relief against a granular, irregular flan surface characteristic of early Ionian electrum coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (500 BC - 480 BC) |
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Electrum staters from uncertain Ionian mints of this period are notoriously difficult to attribute, partly because the Greek cities of western Anatolia shared artistic conventions and sometimes shared dies. The two decades bracketing 490 BC were not quiet ones for Ionia — the failed revolt against Achaemenid rule (499–493 BC) resulted in the destruction of Miletus and the reorganization of several minting cities under tighter Persian oversight, disrupting local coinage traditions abruptly.
The Linzalone reference suggests a private collection attribution rather than a standard corpus assignment, which places this piece outside the main classificatory frameworks of Rosen or SNG volumes.