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A holed silver hemidrachm of Neapolis with a nymph on the obverse and a gorgoneion on the reverse Coin Type: Holed silver hemidrachm of Neapolis in Macedonia, 411 - 348 BCE
Mint and Date: Neapolis, 411 - 348 BCE
Size and Weight: 13.5mm, 1.63g
Obverse: Facing gorgoneion, tongue protruding.
Reverse: Young female head right (Artemis Parthenos?).
N E (O) Π around head.
Provenance: The Time Machine Co. (Vcoins), August 2006
Ref: GCV 1417 var; Dewing 1069; SNG ANS 436 ff.
BW Ref: 001 024 084
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