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Æ18
| Issuer | Bisanthe |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΙΣΑΝ ΘΗΝΩΝ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Bisanthe was a Thracian coastal city — originally a Samian colony on the northern shore of the Propontis, near modern Tekirdağ — that issued only a handful of autonomous bronze types during the fourth century BC before being absorbed into the expanding Macedonian sphere. The city's coinage is genuinely scarce, a function of its modest size and brief window of independent issue rather than any survival accident.
Reference Bisanthe#29 places this among a small series with limited die documentation. Fewer than a dozen specimens are typically traceable in major auction records.