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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Barke |
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| Year | 450 BC - 420 BC |
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| Weight | 16.161 g |
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| Obverse description | Central type depicting a silphium plant in full growth, rendered with characteristic numismatic precision: a tall central stalk rising to a large, globular, granulated seed head, flanked by lateral branches each terminating in smaller fruiting umbels. The lower portion of the plant features broad, spreading leaves or root elements curving outward to both sides, filling the flan. The design occupies the entire field of the irregularly shaped flan, executed in bold relief typical of mid-fifth century BC Cyrenaican coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | T E |
| Reverse description | Bearded head of Zeus-Ammon facing right, portrayed with characteristic syncretic iconography: a mature male visage with a short curling beard, surmounted by the ram's horn of Ammon curving around the temple, set within a beaded inner border and a cable or rope outer border. The portrait is rendered in archaic-to-transitional Greek style within a circular incuse field, with the ethnic legend partially disposed around the periphery. The workmanship reflects the artistic conventions of Cyrenaican mints of the fifth century BC. |
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