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| Issuer | Gambrion |
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| Year | 400 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in fine archaic-to-early classical Greek style. The deity's hair is elaborately arranged, with a laurel wreath crowning the head and long wavy locks falling behind the neck. Facial features are finely modeled, exhibiting the characteristic idealized beauty of early fourth-century Mysian coinage. The portrait fills the flan with confident relief, characteristic of the Gambrion mint's refined engraving tradition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Gambrion was a minor Mysian city of uncertain foundation, likely a Lydian-era settlement absorbed into the Persian satrapal system before asserting its own civic coinage during the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Its output was modest by any measure — the city never commanded significant regional weight — which is precisely why surviving specimens are catalogued as varieties rather than established types: the dies were few, short-lived, and inconsistently reproduced. The Winterthur 2 and SNG France references diverge on specifics, suggesting more than one obverse or reverse pairing was in active circulation simultaneously.