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A work made of silver.

Diobol (Coin) Depicting a Lion

395-377 BCE or 478 BCE and later

Greek

Ancient Greece

The front of this coin depicts the head of a lion with jaws open, facing to the left.

On the back of the coin is a stellate flower inside an incuse square.

Silver

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium