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Tetradrachm
| Emittent | Athens |
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| Jahr | 474 BC - 465 BC |
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| Referenz(en) | HGC 4#1593 |
| Aversbeschreibung | Helmeted head of Athena facing right in high relief, rendered in the early Classical style. The goddess wears a round earring and a crested Attic helmet, the bowl of which is decorated with three incised olive leaves and a spiral palmette. The eye is rendered in the archaic frontal manner despite the profile presentation of the face, a characteristic feature of the transitional period between Archaic and Classical coinage. |
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| Reversbeschreibung | Owl (Athena's sacred bird) standing erect to right with head turned to face the viewer, rendered with characteristic large frontal eyes and detailed plumage; the legs are depicted in a parallel stance. An olive sprig with berries appears in the upper left field, and the ethnic inscription AΘE occupies the right field. The entire design is set within a shallow incuse square, a hallmark of early Athenian coinage of this transitional period. |
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These issues fall within the period when Athens was consolidating its naval dominance following Salamis, and the silver funding that expansion came directly from the Laurion mines in southern Attica — a seam rich enough that Themistocles had persuaded the Athenian assembly in 483 BC to invest the windfall into warships rather than distribute it as citizen dividends. The tetradrachm became the working currency of that entire enterprise.
The type's die-cutting remained deliberately archaic well past the point when other mints had modernized, a conscious conservatism that made Athenian coins immediately recognizable across the Aegean and into Egypt and the Levant.