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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Messana |
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| Year | 425 BC - 421 BC |
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| Weight | 17.23 g |
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| Reverse description | A hare springs vigorously to the right in high relief, its legs fully extended in a leaping posture, serving as the principal civic emblem of Messana. Beneath the hare, a fly is depicted in fine detail to the right, a distinctive and enigmatic secondary device unique to Messanan coinage of this series. The field is plain, with the ethnic legend ΜΕΣΣΑΝΙΟΝ distributed around the periphery in incuse or raised Greek letters. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΜΕΣΣΑΝΙΟΝ |
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| Mintage | ND (425 BC - 421 BC) |
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