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| Issuer | Odessos |
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| Year | 250 BC - 200 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic style with finely detailed wavy hair and a wreath of laurel leaves; the portrait displays a smooth, youthful countenance with well-defined facial features. A dotted border runs along the upper rim of the flan. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Odessos, the Greek colony on the western Black Sea coast in what is now Varna, Bulgaria, operated as a commercially active port city under varying degrees of Macedonian and later independent influence through the third century BC. Its autonomous bronze issues from this period circulated locally alongside the city's silver coinage, serving the small transactions that silver couldn't efficiently handle. The HGC 3.2 series for this type is sparsely documented, reflecting how little of Odessan civic coinage reached major Western collections before the twentieth century.