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Drachm Theodosia
| Issuer | Bosporan Kingdom |
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| Year | 400 BC - 375 BC |
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| Weight | 5 g |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male head, identified as Ares, facing left and rendered in fine archaic-to-early classical Greek style. The deity wears a crested Attic helmet with a prominent bowl and decorative cheekpiece curling forward. The beard is rendered in careful parallel striations, and the facial features display strong, well-modelled relief characteristic of late 5th-century Bosporan coinage. The flan is slightly irregular, with the design occupying the full field to the coin's edge. |
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| Reverse description | Frontal bucranium (bull's head facing) depicted in bold relief, with wide curved horns and a forelock rendered in neat parallel lines above the brow. Decorative fillets hang from the horn tips, terminating in small pendants, indicative of a sacrificial or votive context. A row of small dots adorns the forehead between the horns. The abbreviated Greek civic legend ΘΕΟΔΟ arcs above the bucranium in the upper field, identifying the issuing city of Theodosia. |
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| Mint | Theodosia, Tauric Chersonesus, modern-day Feodosiya, Ukraine |
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