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Hemidrachm: Bull's Head (obverse); Head of Artemis (reverse)
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The head of a bull, its characteristic star-like fur and bulbous eyes particularly noticeable, dominates the obverse of this coin. On the reverse is Artemis, whose hair is curled back in the krobylos style using a hairnet. The unusual lines above Artemis’s nose and below her chin suggest that the reverse may have been struck with the same design twice.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineHemidrachm: Bull's Head (obverse); Head of Artemis (reverse), c. 485–480 BCE. Greek, probably minted at Phokikon (Phokis). Silver; diameter: 1.4 cm (9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1916.983
