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Æ17
| Issuer | Halikarnassos |
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| Year | 150 BC - 50 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (150 BC - 50 BC) |
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Halikarnassos — modern Bodrum in southwestern Turkey — was by this period a thoroughly Hellenized city operating under fluctuating Roman and Rhodian influence following the collapse of the Pergamene kingdom in 133 BC. Bronze civic issues of this era were workhorse currency, produced in quantity to handle local exchange after the city's integration into the Roman province of Asia stripped it of meaningful political autonomy. The SNG Copenhagen and von Aulock concordances place this type firmly within a well-documented but chronologically imprecise bracket of roughly a century.
The city's foundational fame — as birthplace of Herodotus and site of the Mausoleum — had no bearing on its coinage by this point.