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| Issuer | Kranaos |
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| Year | 300 BC - 280 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Facing head of Helios, turned slightly to the right, rendered in archaic Greek style with radiating hair swept back from the face. The facial features are boldly struck with a broad forehead and full cheeks characteristic of late 4th-century Karian civic bronzes. The hair is arranged in loose locks framing the face, with the overall composition filling the flan. The surface shows typical hammered irregularity consistent with small-denomination civic coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Kranaos was a minor settlement in Karia whose coinage is so sparsely documented that it survives in only a handful of collections worldwide. The references here — Karia 219–220 and Kayhan 1648–1649 — represent the primary scholarly anchors for attributing this type, and even those sources offer little more than the attribution itself.
The early Hellenistic date places production in the political turbulence following Alexander's death, when dozens of small Karian communities briefly exercised autonomous minting rights before Seleucid and later Ptolemaic pressures consolidated regional authority.