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| Issuer | Hydisos (Caria) |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Bearded male deity, tentatively identified as Zeus, standing facing with head turned to the right. The figure is depicted in full length, holding a long spear in the right hand and a round shield in the left. The ethnic legend ΥΔΙΣΕΩΝ, identifying the civic authority of Hydisos, is divided in two lines flanking the figure in the field. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Hydisos was a small inland Carian settlement whose autonomous bronze coinage is attested only through a handful of surviving specimens, making even routine examples genuinely scarce. The city's civic issues were struck during the period of Roman reorganization of Asia Minor following the bequest of the Attalid kingdom in 133 BC, when dozens of minor Carian and Lydian communities briefly asserted issuing rights before provincial consolidation curtailed them.
BMC Greek cites only a single example.