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| Issuer | Nesos |
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| Year | 300 BC - 200 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in profile with flowing hair bound by an olive wreath. The youthful effigy is depicted in the Hellenistic style characteristic of Thessalian civic bronzes, with clearly articulated facial features and locks of hair visible at the nape of the neck. The field surrounding the bust is plain and unadorned, with no visible legend on this face. |
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| Mintage | ND (300 BC - 200 BC) |
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Nesos ("island" in Greek) was a minor mint operating in Sicily during the third century BC, a period when the island was contested between Carthaginian and Greek spheres of influence. The city itself is poorly documented in ancient sources, and its coinage — limited in type and volume — represents one of the more obscure provincial Sicilian series. BMC Greek 10 is among the more frequently referenced specimens, which speaks less to abundance than to how few examples exist to catalog at all.