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Æ14
| Issuer | Tomis |
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| Year | 300 BC - 101 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of the Great God facing right, rendered in a somewhat archaic style typical of Pontic civic bronze coinage. The hair is depicted in thick, heavy locks beneath a laurel wreath, with broad facial features visible despite significant surface wear. The portrait fills the flan with no visible legend or border on the obverse. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΤΟΜΙ |
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Tomis, the Black Sea Greek colony later known as the city where Ovid would spend his final years in exile, struck small bronze issues like this throughout the Hellenistic period as purely local currency — functional fractions circulating within the port economy rather than instruments of wider regional exchange. The HGC 3.2 1945 type falls within a two-century window that saw the city navigate shifting allegiances between Macedonian successor kingdoms and the growing pressure of Pontic influence under Mithridates VI.