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Tetradrachm - Epigene..., Sosandros and Moschi...
| Issuer | Athens |
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| Year | 125 BC - 124 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse description | Facing right, the helmeted head of Athena Parthenos rendered in the late New Style manner, her Attic helmet elaborately decorated with a palmette above the visor, a prominent fore-part of a horse on the bowl, and a coiled serpent at the nape. The hair falls in undulating locks beneath the helmet rim, and the goddess's finely modelled facial features display the idealized Hellenistic canon. No legend appears in the field, the entire design filling the flan with characteristic Athenian New Style artistry. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΣΦ |
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By the second century BC, Athenian tetradrachms had shifted from the archaic "old style" owl coinage to the so-called New Style series, which incorporated the names of magistrates directly into the coin — the three officials named on this piece being among the rotating annual magistracies responsible for overseeing each emission. Thompson's exhaustive 1961 corpus catalogued these by magistrate groups, allowing precise dating to single-year issues, which is how this piece lands in 125/124 BC rather than a broader range.