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| Issuer | Amyzon |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A stag stands to right on a clearly defined groundline, rendered naturalistically with slender legs and upright antlers, the sacred animal of Artemis serving as the civic emblem of Amyzon. The ethnic legend AMYZONEΩΝ is disposed around the periphery of the field, identifying the issuing community. The composition is enclosed within a dotted border. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΜΥΖΟΝΕΩΝ |
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Amyzon was a small Carian hill town whose civic coinage is poorly documented precisely because the city itself was — administrative records from the sanctuary of Artemis Amyzonia, excavated by the French in the 1970s, remain one of the few substantial sources for the city's history at all. Bronze issues of this type circulated locally in a region that changed hands repeatedly between Ptolemaic and Seleucid control during the third century, with the town eventually falling under Rhodian and then Roman influence by the mid-second century.