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Æ15
| Issuer | Hamaxitos |
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| Year | 300 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bearded head of Zeus-Ammon facing right, distinguished by the characteristic ram's horn curling behind the ear, rendered in the archaic style typical of Troas civic bronze coinage of the early Hellenistic period. The portrait occupies the central field of the flan, with the surface now exhibiting a deep green patina consistent with prolonged burial. The flan is irregular in shape, as is characteristic of hammered bronzes of this series. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hamaxitos was a minor Aeolian city on the Troad coast, its coinage output extremely limited — which is precisely why SNG Copenhagen lists only a handful of specimens across all types. The city's political independence was perpetually precarious, squeezed between larger Troad powers and the shifting territorial ambitions that followed Alexander's campaigns through Asia Minor.
The Svoronos Cretans reference situating this type is itself a scarce bibliographic resource, making die-linkage studies across surviving specimens correspondingly difficult.