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Stater
| Issuer | Phaistos (Crete (ancient)) |
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| Year | 322 BC - 300 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Herakles depicted in heroic combat stance, striding to left, his body draped in the Nemean lion skin. With his left hand he grasps one of the serpentine heads of the Lernaean Hydra, while his raised right arm prepares to deliver a blow with his club. The figure is rendered in vigorous archaic style, conveying dynamic movement within the roughly circular, irregular flan. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A bull pacing to left in profile, its head turned to face the viewer frontally, rendered with naturalistic musculature and careful anatomical detail. The animal's four legs are fully extended in a walking pose, the tail hanging naturally. The type is characteristic of Cretan civic coinage and appears within a plain field on an irregularly shaped hammered flan, with a dotted border partially visible along the periphery. |
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