Circa 350-300 BCE
Æ 2.86g, 15mm, 12h
Sokrates, magistrate. Head of Artemis Munychia facing slightly to left
Bull butting to left against palm tree; ΦΥΓ above, ΣΩΚΡΑΤΗΣ below.
SNG von Aulock 2150; SNG Copenhagen 1074; BMC 4-8.
Phygela, also called Pygela, was reputadably settled by Agamemnon and populated with the remains of his army. Legend has they stayed there because they had a disease of the rear, though I’m not exactly sure what that could be. If that was the case, though, I’m sure their wives appreciated them not making an entrance.
Strabo mentions that Amazons lived in the vicinity of the city. He also says it contained a temple to Artemis Munychia, who is depicted on the obverse of this coin, and was a small town.