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Æ12
| Issuer | Kaunos |
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| Year | 300 BC - 250 BC |
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| Diameter | 12.0 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bull butting to right, rendered in a bold, vigorous style characteristic of Karian civic coinage of the early Hellenistic period. The animal is depicted in full profile with lowered head and forelegs braced, conveying a sense of dynamic forward momentum. The field is plain, and the flan shows the irregular edges typical of hammered bronze issues of this denomination. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kaunos occupied an awkward political position throughout the fourth and third centuries BC — nominally under Achaemenid influence, then absorbed into the Hecatomnid satrapy of Caria, then passed between Ptolemaic and Seleucid hands like a disputed border town. This small bronze was struck during precisely that unsettled transitional period, when the city was asserting enough local identity to produce its own coinage while larger powers argued over who actually controlled it.