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Æ12
| Issuer | Temnos |
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| Year | 300 BC - 100 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Head of Dionysos facing right, wearing an ivy wreath, rendered in archaic Greek style with naturalistic facial features; the hair falls in loose locks behind the neck. The flan is irregular and the surfaces show typical patination of ancient bronze coinage from Aiolis. |
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| Reverse description | Bunch of grapes hanging from a vine branch with leaves and tendrils, depicted in high relief at centre of the field. To the lower left and lower right of the grape cluster appear the letters Tau (Τ) and Alpha (Α), forming the civic abbreviation ΤΑ for Temnos. |
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Temnos was a minor Aeolian city on the Hermos River in western Asia Minor, politically overshadowed for most of this period by the competing ambitions of Pergamon and the Seleucid kingdom. Its autonomous bronze coinage — of which this is a representative example — reflects a window of civic independence that effectively closed when Roman reorganization of the region following 133 BC absorbed the area into the province of Asia. The SNG Copenhagen reference range suggests this piece belongs to a loosely grouped series rather than a precisely attributed emission.