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The Lion of Chaeronea

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Stater (16.14 grams), minted from the naturally occurring gold-silver alloy electrum between 500 and 450 BCE by the polis of Cyzicus (located on the Hellespont in northwest Anatolia). The obverse, shown here, bears a gorgoneion (gorgon’s head) above a tuna fish. Now in the British Museum. Photo credit: ArchaiOptix/Wikimedia Commons.

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