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ID: |
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skyrus |
| Type: |
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Greek |
| Region: |
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THESSALY, ISLANDS OFF |
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City:
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Skyros |
| Metal: |
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Silver |
| Denomination: |
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Didrachm |
| Struck / Cast: |
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struck |
| Date Struck: |
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485-480 BC |
| Diameter: |
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22 mm |
| Weight: |
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8.67 g |
| Obverse Description: |
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Two long horned and bearded goats, opposed vertically, back to back, with their heads turned inwards and their legs extended; between them, five-lobed fig leaf |
| Reverse Description: |
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stellate design composed of a large central globule surrounded by four smaller ones and by two rays (towards the upper l. and lower r.) and two three-lobed fig leaves (towards the upper r. and the lower l.); all within incuse square |
| Mint: |
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Skyrus |
| Primary Reference: |
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CNG Triton XV, 809 |
| Photograph Credit: |
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Classical Numismatic Group |
| Source: |
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http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=199419 |
| Special Comments: |
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See also : Balcer, Archaic 18 (A. 7 / P. 4) pl. 26, 18 (this coin); Jameson 2122 (this coin); Nomos 4, 1367 (same dies) |
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Grade:
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VF |
| Notes: |
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From the collection of Robert Jameson. Aside from a very peculiar and an extremely rare silver coinage ascribed to the pirates in the 480s BC, and known only from a pair of hoards and a goodly number of Christodoulos forgeries, there are no other coins except a rare bronze issue by the Athenian cleruchs in the 1st century BC (Agora XXVI, 160). |
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