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Tetradrachm - Dionysios and Kallis
| Issuer | Athens (Attica) |
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| Year | 118 BC - 117 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, wearing a crested Attic helmet adorned with decorative scrollwork and a palmette above the visor. The goddess's hair falls in carefully rendered wavy locks beneath the helmet, and a serpent coils visibly at the neck guard. The portrait is executed in the refined late Hellenistic style characteristic of the New Style Athenian coinage, with finely modelled facial features. The field is plain and the coin is bordered by a beaded inner circle. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Owl standing right with head facing, perched atop a panathenaic amphora decorated with the letter E; in the right field, Helios driving a quadriga. The magistrates' names appear in two vertical columns flanking the central devices, with the ethnic ΑΘΕ above and the control symbol ΣΦ in the exergue. The entire design is enclosed within an olive wreath, a hallmark of the New Style coinage of Athens. |
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