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| Issuer | Pheneos (Arkadia) |
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| Year | 360 BC - 350 BC |
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| Weight | 12.05 g |
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| Reverse description | A nude Hermes stands in three-quarter pose, his chlamys draped over his left shoulder and arms, and the winged petasus upon his head. On his raised left arm he cradles the infant Archas, the eponymous hero of Arkadia, who reaches upward with his right hand to touch the god's petasus. Hermes holds the kerykeion (caduceus) in his right hand. The reverse legend ΦΕΝΕΩΝ, identifying the issuing city of Pheneos, appears in the field. The composition is rendered with narrative sophistication characteristic of mid-fourth century BC Peloponnesian coinage. |
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| Mint | Pheneos, Arkadia |
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Pheneos was a minor Arkadian polis whose coinage output was limited almost entirely to a brief window in the mid-fourth century, likely connected to the political turbulence following the Battle of Leuktra in 371 BC and the subsequent Arkadian League experiments in regional autonomy. The city sat at the northern edge of Arkadia, geographically isolated in a basin prone to flooding — ancient sources including Pausanias note that the plain periodically submerged entirely, disrupting agriculture and, presumably, whatever economic stability underpinned coin production.
The number of major collection references this piece carries — Lockett, Weber, Gillet, Fitzwilliam, and others — signals it passed through the great early twentieth-century European cabinets in succession.