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Æ16
| Issuer | Tyre |
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| Year | 122 BC - 121 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | A tall date palm tree occupies the center of the field, rendered with spreading fronds and clusters of dates, serving as the primary civic emblem of Tyre. To the left of the trunk appears the Seleucid era date ΖΜΡ (year 187, corresponding to 122/121 BC). The Greek civic legend surrounds the design, attesting to Tyre's status as a holy metropolis. The strike is irregular, as is typical of hammered Phoenician bronze coinage of the late second century BC. |
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| Mint | Tyre |
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Tyre regained autonomous civic status in 126/125 BC after centuries under Seleucid control, and the years immediately following saw the city establishing its own bronze coinage as a direct expression of that independence. This piece falls within the earliest decades of that autonomous era, when the city was simultaneously rebuilding its commercial networks and asserting institutional permanence through coin production.