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| Issuer | Poseidonia |
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| Year | 420 BC - 410 BC |
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| Currency | Phocaean/Campanian Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A bull standing to left, rendered in fine detail with the body in profile, occupying the central field; the retrograde ethnic inscription ΠΟΜΕΣΔΑΝ is disposed above the animal. The entire design is set within a deep circular incuse square, a hallmark of the archaic and transitional incuse coinage tradition of Magna Graecia, here persisting into the early Classical period at Poseidonia. The incuse technique creates a mirror-image relief against the recessed background, lending the type a characteristic sculptural quality. |
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| Mint | Poseidonia (Paestum) |
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