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Tetradrachm - Epikrates
| Issuer | Samos |
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| Year | 408 BC - 366 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Facing lion scalp rendered in bold relief, depicted full-face with a broad, flattened muzzle, prominent brow ridge, and wide-set eyes. The mane radiates symmetrically around the scalp in deeply engraved, stylized strands, filling the field to the coin's border. The treatment is characteristic of the archaic-to-classical Samian style, with a powerful, almost mask-like frontality emphasizing the heraldic quality of the type. |
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| Reverse lettering | EΠKPATHΣ AXEΛΩIO ΣA |
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Samos operated under shifting Athenian and Persian influence throughout this period, and the island's coinage reflects that instability — production was interrupted outright when the Athenians established a cleruchy on the island in 365 BC, expelling the Samian population entirely. Coins naming magistrates like Epikrates belong to the late civic series issued before that rupture, making them documents of the last generation of independent Samian monetary administration.
The Barron typology for Samian silver remains the foundational reference, and HGC 6 concurs on the attribution. Epikrates is attested as a magistrate name on a small cluster of dies within this series.