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| Issuer | Hydisos (Caria) |
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| Year | 150 BC - 50 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, wearing a Corinthian helmet with a pronounced crest. The facial features are rendered in a confident Hellenistic style, with clearly defined cheekpieces flanking the face. A dotted border frames the design along the coin's irregular circumference. The surface retains a dark olive-green patina consistent with prolonged burial. |
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| Mint | Hydisos |
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Hydisos was a minor Carian inland settlement whose civic coinage is known from only a handful of types, all bronze, all small. The town's autonomy during this period sat uneasily between Rhodian commercial dominance of the region and the periodic reassertion of Seleucid or later Pergamene influence — precisely the kind of political instability that tends to produce short-lived civic issues. HN Online 1932 is among the rarer entries in the sequence.