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Tetradrachm - Phoinikos
| Issuer | Ilion (Troad) |
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| Year | 188 BC - 133 BC |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena in right profile, rendered in fine Hellenistic style. The goddess wears a laureate triple-crested Attic helmet adorned with a prominent olive wreath, its leaves clearly articulated. Long flowing locks of hair fall behind the neck in carefully engraved strands. The portrait is boldly modelled in high relief against a smooth, unlettered field, exhibiting the accomplished die-cutting characteristic of the Ilian mint during the post-Apamean period. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Athena Ilias, the city goddess of Ilion, depicted standing in three-quarter view facing right, holding a distaff in her extended right hand and a filleted spear in her left. An owl, the sacred bird of Athena, stands facing right at her feet to the lower right of the field. To the inner left, a monogram appears above a star. The magistrate's name ΦΟΙΝΙΚΟΣ appears in the exergue, with the principal legend ΑΘΗΝΑΣ ΙΛΙΑΔΟΣ distributed in the field, identifying the coin as an issue of the sanctuary of Athena Ilias. |
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