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Stater
| Issuer | Phokaia |
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| Year | 600 BC - 522 BC |
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| Value | Stater (20) |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a griffin facing right in high relief, rendered in the archaic Ionian style, with jaws agape and a prominent protruding tongue curling downward. The creature's muscular neck and folded wing are rendered with bold, stylized modeling characteristic of early electrum coinage. The eye is rendered as a raised pellet, and the beak terminates in a sharp, hooked form. The design fills the irregular flan without a border or legend, occupying the entire field. |
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| Reverse description | Quadripartite incuse square deeply struck into the flan, divided by raised ridges into four recessed triangular compartments meeting at the center, creating a windmill or pinwheel pattern. The incuse punch is crisply defined with sharply recessed fields and slightly raised central ridge intersections, a characteristic feature of early archaic electrum staters produced by the punch technique. The surrounding flan surface is plain and uninscribed. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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