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Stater
| Issuer | Mytilene |
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| Year | 350 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in fine Classical style with carefully detailed hair bound by a laurel wreath, locks falling loosely behind the neck. The facial features are sensitively modelled with a smooth, idealised treatment characteristic of mid-4th century BCE Lesbian coinage. The broad, slightly irregular flan displays no inscription or border, with the head filling the field to commanding effect. |
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| Reverse description | A large, finely detailed kithara (lyre) depicted facing, with seven strings rendered between elegantly curved tortoise-shell arms and a crossbar at the top; the instrument occupies the full height of the design field. To the inner left of the lyre stands a thyrsus — the Dionysiac staff topped with a pine cone — serving as a secondary symbol. The entire design is enclosed within a rectilinear linear square border. The civic ethnic MYTI is distributed around the field, split as MY T – I in the upper and lateral zones. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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