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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Myrina |
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| Year | 160 BC - 143 BC |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in the refined Hellenistic style with wavy hair secured by a laurel wreath and a long braided lock falling behind the neck. The facial features are idealised, with a straight nose, slightly parted lips, and a graceful youthful profile. The portrait fills the flan generously, with no legend in the field, the entire design devoted to the god's effigy. The hair is elaborately worked, with individual strands visible both above the brow and along the nape, reflecting high-quality die-cutting characteristic of the Myrina civic coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Apollo Grynios depicted standing to the right in full figure, holding a phiale in his extended right hand and a filleted laurel branch in his left. An omphalos and an amphora are placed at his feet, referencing the sanctuary of Apollo at Grynion. The ethnic legend MYPINAIΩN appears to the left of the figure alongside a monogram. The entire composition is enclosed within a laurel wreath border, a hallmark of the civic Hellenistic tetradrachm coinage of Myrina in Aeolis. |
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| Mint | Myrina, Aeolis |
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