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| Issuer | Knidos |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Artemis facing right, wearing a stephane or diadem, with long hair falling in waves behind the neck; the portrait is rendered in the Hellenistic style characteristic of Knidian civic coinage of the 2nd–1st century BC. The face is depicted with fine detail, presenting a youthful feminine profile. The field surrounding the bust is plain and unadorned. |
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| Mint | Knidos |
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Knidos, the Carian city occupying a narrow peninsula at the southwestern tip of Anatolia, maintained its own bronze coinage well into the Hellenistic period despite coming under Rhodian commercial dominance. The city was famous in antiquity as the home of Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos — the first monumental nude female sculpture in the Greek world — and drew enough religious tourism to sustain a mint of modest but consistent output through the second century BC.