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Tetartemorion
| Issuer | Uncertain Carian city |
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| Year | 420 BC - 350 BC |
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| Weight | 0.17 g |
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| Obverse description | Ram's head facing right, rendered in archaic Greek style with the characteristic curved horn tightly coiled and the muzzle clearly articulated. The design is boldly executed within the small flan, with the head occupying nearly the entire obverse field. The surface shows typical toning consistent with ancient silver coinage of Caria. |
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| Mintage | ND (420 BC - 350 BC) |
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At 0.17g, this is fractional coinage at its most extreme — a denomination so small it was likely counted rather than weighed in everyday transactions. Caria in the fifth and fourth centuries produced a bewildering variety of civic and dynastic issues, and without a legible ethnic or known die link, attribution here stops at the regional level. Klein 500 places it within a cluster of similarly anonymous pieces that scholars have yet to assign convincingly to a specific mint.