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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Myrina |
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| Year | 160 BC - 143 BC |
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| Weight | 16.34 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in fine Hellenistic style with idealized, youthful features. The deity wears an elaborate wreath of laurel leaves crowning long, wavy hair that falls in thick, carefully modeled locks behind the neck. A small control symbol, possibly a floral or royal emblem, appears to the left in the lower field. The portrait is boldly struck in high relief with confident, fluid engraving characteristic of the Aeolian mint tradition. |
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| Reverse description | Standing draped figure of Apollo facing slightly left, holding a patera in his extended right hand and a tall strung bow in his left; a tall oenochoe (wine jug) is set on the ground to his lower right. The entire composition is framed within a prominent wreath of laurel, rendered with large, boldly modeled leaves. The ethnic legend MYPINAIΩN is inscribed vertically to the left of the central figure within the wreath, in clear Greek letters. The overall design is characteristic of the civic coinage of Myrina in Aeolis, executed in the late Hellenistic period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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