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Æ16
| Issuer | Paros |
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| Year | 325 BC - 100 BC |
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| Reference(s) | HGC 6#670 |
| Obverse description | Bare head of a female deity facing right, adorned with a stephane (stephanos), rendered in the Hellenistic style typical of Cycladic civic coinage. The facial features are cleanly modelled, with the hair drawn back and gathered beneath the stephane. The portrait occupies the central field with no visible legend or border. |
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| Mintage | ND (325 BC - 100 BC) |
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Paros, the Cycladic island that supplied the ancient Mediterranean world with its most prized white marble, maintained a mint that produced relatively little bronze coinage compared to its silver-rich neighbors. The HGC 6, 670 type spans a wide dating range, suggesting continuous or intermittent production across a period that saw the Aegean pass from Macedonian dominance through the wars of the Diadochi and into the era of Rhodian commercial hegemony — each shift altering trade patterns through the Cyclades in ways that affected local monetary needs directly.