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Tetradrachm - M...
| Issuer | Akanthos (Macedon) |
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| Year | 430 BC - 390 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse description | Lion in profile to right, shown attacking a bull that collapses to the left with head raised in distress. The predator seizes its prey in a dynamic, naturalistic composition characteristic of archaic Macedonian coinage. The lion's tail hangs pendant. A magistrate's name appears in the exergue below the central design group. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Akanthos, a Chalkidian colony on the Athos peninsula, was among the first Greek cities to strike large silver coinage in the late archaic period, its issues circulating widely through the northern Aegean trade networks that connected Macedon to Thasos and Thrace. The city's silver came largely from the mineral-rich hinterlands of the Chalkidike, a region coveted enough that Persia, Athens, and eventually Macedon all sought control of it in succession.
Desneux's 1949 classification remains the standard reference for this series, distinguishing dies across a production span now confirmed by hoard evidence to run roughly through the early fourth century.