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| Issuer | Sermyle |
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| Year | 500 BC - 470 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Nude male horseman astride a galloping horse, moving to right; the rider extends his left arm forward along the horse's neck while his right hand rests upon the animal's rump. The composition conveys vigorous motion characteristic of early Macedonian and Thracian coinage. A border of dots frames the design within the coin's field. |
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| Mintage | ND (500 BC - 470 BC) |
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Sermyle was a small Chalcidian colony on the Sithonian peninsula of Macedon, and its coinage is rare enough that the city itself is better known from Thucydides' account of its surrender to Brasidas in 424 BC than from any numismatic abundance. Issues attributable to Sermyle appear in only a handful of major collections, with the Weber and AMNG references between them documenting fewer than a dozen distinct specimens across all denominations.