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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Skione |
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| Year | 480 BC - 470 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Facing right, the helmeted head of the hero Protesilaos rendered in archaic Greek style, wearing an Attic helmet adorned with a wreath and a prominent crest. The retrograde legend ΠΡΟΤΕΣΙΛΑΟΣ is inscribed along the helmet, identifying the depicted hero. The portraiture displays strong archaic conventions characteristic of northern Aegean coinage of the early fifth century BC. The flan is broad and irregularly shaped, typical of the hammered silver coinage of this period. |
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| Reverse description | The stern of a warship galley with an ornate aphlaston curves to the left, rendered in fine incuse relief within a deeply impressed square incuse. The letters Σ, Κ, Ι, and Ο, abbreviating the ethnic ΣΚΙΩΝΕ (Skione), are distributed in the four corners of the incuse square. The incuse technique is characteristic of early northern Greek coinage and lends the reverse a bold, graphic quality. The galley stern serves as the civic emblem of Skione, a maritime city on the Pallene peninsula of Chalcidice. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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