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Issuer Kardia
Year 350 BC - 309 BC
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Composition Bronze
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Reverse script Greek
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Edge Plain
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Kardia occupied a strategically critical position at the neck of the Thracian Chersonese, controlling overland access to the peninsula and its vital grain routes to Athens. The city was destroyed by Lysimachus around 309 BC — who then founded Lysimacheia nearby to serve as his new Thracian capital — which effectively ends the minting period for this type and explains the relatively compressed window of issue.

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