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| Issuer | Uncertain Carian city |
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| Year | 450 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Ithyphallic winged male deity depicted in rapid motion to the right, rendered in the archaic running-kneeling pose; wings sprout from both shoulders and heels, evoking the iconography of a divine or daimonic figure. The musculature is rendered with characteristic early Classical precision. A monogram or linear device, possibly comprising the letters omicron and upsilon, appears above and to the left of the figure's shoulder, likely serving as a civic or magistrate's mark. |
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| Mintage | ND (-450) |
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Caria in the mid-fifth century BC was a patchwork of semi-autonomous communities operating under loose Achaemenid suzerainty, and attributing uninscribed silver from the region remains one of the more contentious problems in Greek numismatics. The Rosen and Lockett references list this type as a variant, which typically signals die-link or fabric discrepancies that prevent firm city attribution — not mere curatorial caution.
The SNG von Aulock concordance has been the backbone of Carian attribution work since 1957, but its classifications have been repeatedly revised as hoards from southwestern Anatolia surface through Turkish excavations.