Catalog
Stater
| Issuer | Axos |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of a young, beardless male facing right, rendered in archaic-to-early classical style with short, closely cropped hair indicated by fine incised striations. The facial features are modeled in high relief with a strong profile, prominent nose, and slightly parted lips. The neck is broad and unadorned, set against a plain, unlettered field. The overall style is consistent with Cretan coinage production of the 4th century BC. |
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| Mint | Axos (Crete) |
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Axos (also rendered Axos or Oaxos) was a polis of the Cretan interior, situated in the Mylopotamos valley, and among the more prolific coin-issuing cities of ancient Crete despite its distance from the island's major coastal centers. Its silver staters belong to a tradition of Cretan coinage that operated largely outside the dominant weight standards of the Aegean mainland, adhering instead to local conventions that make attribution without provenance genuinely difficult.