Tetartemorion

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背面描述	Vertical thunderbolt depicted centrally within a shallow concave incuse circle, flanked by the Greek letters M (mu) to the left and Y (upsilon) to the right, forming the abbreviated ethnic MY for Mykalessos. The thunderbolt is rendered in a stylized form with radiating volutes at top and bottom. The incuse circle provides a defined field, a common reverse treatment on diminutive silver fractions of this period.
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背面铭文	ΜΥ
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附加信息	Mykalessos, a small Boeotian town near the coast, was the site of one of the most savage atrocities of the Peloponnesian War — in 413 BC, Thracian mercenaries en route to Sicily sacked the city and massacred its population, including children in their schoolrooms. That the town recovered sufficiently to strike its own silver coinage within a generation is itself remarkable. At 0.22g, the tetartemorion was the smallest practical unit of ancient Greek silver coinage, fractional currency for the most granular commercial transactions a local economy could produce.

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