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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Akanthos (Macedon) |
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| Year | 424 BC - 380 BC |
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| Weight | 13.87 g |
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| Obverse description | A lion, depicted in dynamic right-facing profile, attacks a bull that kneels to the left, its hindquarters seized in the lion's jaws in a vivid predator-prey composition characteristic of northern Greek coinage. The bull strains forward in submission while the lion bites forcefully into its haunches, conveying ferocity and power through bold, confident engraving. A swastika symbol appears in the exergue beneath the group, serving as a decorative or apotropaic device common to early Macedonian and Thracian coinage. |
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| Reverse description | A large incuse square dominates the reverse field, itself subdivided into a quadripartite arrangement by a raised cross, creating four recessed rectangular compartments whose surfaces bear a stippled or granular texture. Within the outer incuse border, the ethnic legend AKANΘΙΟΝ is distributed around the perimeter of the inner square, reading as the civic designation of the issuing city of Akanthos. The overall design is typical of early fifth- to fourth-century Macedonian silver coinage, wherein the reverse functions as a purely geometric mill-square impression derived from archaic incuse technique. |
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| Mint | Akanthos (Macedon) |
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