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Persian Empire, Satrapy of Caria, Hecatomnus, Tritartemorion

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Persian Empire, Satrapy of Caria, Hecatomnus, Tritartemorion (obverse) Persian Empire, Satrapy of Caria, Hecatomnus, Tritartemorion (reverse)

This tiny silver coin of only three millimeters in diameter is of magnificent beauty. It is a tritartemorion (also tritemorion), a coin worth three quarters of an obol, and shows a lion, the ancient symbol of strength and power. On this small coin the lion is depicted even twice: on the obverse as a protome with its foreleg visible and its mouth wide open, and on the reverse as a scalp with a spear in its mouth.

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