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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Heraclea at Latmus |
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| Year | 140 BC - 135 BC |
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| Currency | Attic drachm |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena Parthenos in right profile, rendered in the Attic style. The crested helmet is richly adorned with a Pegasos figure surmounting the bowl, above the foreparts of five galloping horses arranged across the visor. The portrait exhibits the refined engraving characteristic of second-century BC Ionian civic coinage, with carefully rendered facial features and detailed helmet ornament. The field is plain, with no surrounding legend on the obverse. |
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| Reverse description | A horizontal club occupies the central field, serving as the principal civic emblem of Heraclea. Below the club, Nike advances to the left, her figure in motion with both arms raised holding an open wreath aloft. The goddess is flanked on either side by monograms identifying magistrates or civic officials. The entire composition is encircled by a thick oak wreath, a hallmark of the stephanephoric coinage series produced by cities of western Asia Minor in the second century BC. The ethnic inscription HPAKΛEΩTΩN appears within the wreath, identifying the issuing civic authority. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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