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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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| Reverse description | Forepart of a bull facing right, rendered in profile with naturalistic musculature. Above, the name of the magistrate is inscribed in two lines in the field. A laurel branch appears to the left, and the ethnic abbreviation of the city of Samos is placed below the bull, serving as the civic identifier. The composition balances the figural type with epigraphic elements in a manner typical of late fifth- to early fourth-century Samian coinage. |
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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.