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Stater - Kallianaktos
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 360 BC - 350 BC |
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| Diameter | 23.0 mm |
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| Obverse description | Griffin seated to left in profile, depicted with powerful leonine haunches, raised forepaw, and large, finely detailed spread wings rendered with incised feather rows. The creature's beak is open and the head is turned slightly upward, conveying a sense of alert majesty. A dotted border frames the design around the coin's periphery. The partial ethnic inscription ΑΒΔΗΡΙ appears in the upper field to the right of the griffin, identifying the issuing city of Abdera. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΒΔΗΡΙ |
| Reverse description | A nude male figure, identified as Apollo, stands facing in three-quarter view, his body turned slightly to the right. He rests his left arm on a tall laurel or olive tree rising from the ground beside him, while a deer or stag stands before him to the left, its head turned back toward the god. The reverse legend, naming the magistrate Kallianaktos, is distributed in two vertical columns flanking the central figural group within a square incuse punch. The scene is rendered in bold high relief characteristic of the skilled die-engravers of Abdera during the mid-fourth century BC. |
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