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| Issuer | Agathopolis |
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| Year | 300 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Diademed male head facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic tradition with finely engraved hair bound by a diadem. The portrait displays naturalistic facial features characteristic of late 4th-century Greek coinage. The flan is slightly irregular, as typical of hammered bronzes of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Agathopolis was a minor Thracian coastal settlement whose civic coinage output was limited and is poorly documented in ancient sources — precisely why SNG Copenhagen 855 remains a key reference anchor for attributing these bronzes at all. The site's location on the Black Sea littoral placed it within the commercial orbit of larger Thracian and Greek colonial centers, though it never achieved the minting volume of nearby Apollonia or Mesembria.