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Issuer Naxos (Cyclades)
Year 400 BC - 300 BC
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Composition Bronze
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Reverse script Greek
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Mintage ND (400 BC - 300 BC)
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Naxos was the largest of the Cycladic islands and a major producer of marble, which funded a civic infrastructure substantial enough to support a local bronze coinage by the fourth century. These small bronzes served everyday transactions that silver couldn't efficiently handle at low values — the fractional coinage of a prosperous Aegean community rather than a political statement.

The HGC 6, 641 attribution places this firmly within the island's autonomous civic series, distinct from the better-known Sicilian Naxos destroyed by Dionysios I in 403 BC.

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