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Stater
| Issuer | Praisos |
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| Year | 330 BC - 270 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Obverse description | Draped female head facing right, rendered in fine Hellenistic style with richly detailed wavy hair gathered and adorned with what appears to be a stephane or wreath, loose curling locks falling to the neck. The portrait is finely modelled in high relief with delicate facial features, consistent with depictions of a goddess, possibly Diktynna or Hera as worshipped in eastern Crete. No legend appears in the field. |
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| Reverse description | A bull charging or butting to the right, rendered with powerful musculature and dynamic energy, its head lowered and forelegs bent as if in mid-charge, set upon a ground line. A rose blossom is depicted above in the upper field, serving as a civic emblem. The Greek legend ΓΡΑΙΣΙ is arranged around the field, reading as an ethnic abbreviation of the Praisian civic name (ΓΡΑΙΣΙΩΝ), identifying the issuing polis of Praisos in eastern Crete. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΓΡΑΙΣΙ |
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