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Æ ΘΑΡΣΙΔΙΚΑΣ
| Issuer | Cnossus (Cyrenaica and Crete) |
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| Year | 40 BC - 30 BC |
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| Weight | 7.75 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Zeus facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic style typical of late Cretan civic bronzes. The portrait occupies the upper portion of the flan, with details of the hair and facial features partially visible despite the heavily corroded surfaces. The surrounding field is plain and unadorned, with no visible legend or border. |
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| Mintage | ND (40 BC - 30 BC) |
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Cnossus retained the right to strike its own bronze coinage well after Rome reorganized Crete as a province in 67 BC, a privilege extended to few Cretan cities. The ethnic ΘΑΡΣΙΔΙΚΑΣ — a magistrate name, not a civic title — places this issue within a small, identifiable series of late autonomous bronzes where the issuing authority was individual enough to sign the coin.
Svoronos catalogued this type carefully, but die linkage studies since have suggested the actual emission was tightly constrained in volume.