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Æ18
| Issuer | Thessaloniki |
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| Year | 187 BC - 31 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Heavily patinated obverse depicting a draped bust in profile to the right, the features largely obscured by encrustation and surface corrosion consistent with extended burial. The design is characteristic of Macedonian civic bronze coinage of the Hellenistic period, with the bust occupying the central field. No legible legend is discernible on this side due to the advanced state of wear. |
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| Reverse description | A quadruped, likely a horse or bull, depicted in a dynamic bounding pose to the right, rendered in the compact, energetic style typical of Hellenistic Macedonian civic bronzes. The animal occupies the central field with the ethnic legend of the city disposed around the design. Surface corrosion obscures finer details, though the main type remains identifiable. The civic ethnic ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΕΩΝ is partially visible in the field and exergue. |
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Thessaloniki was founded around 315 BC by Cassander, who named it after his wife — Alexander the Great's half-sister — and deliberately populated it by synoikizing several older Macedonian settlements out of existence. The city became the administrative hub of the Roman province of Macedonia after 148 BC, and its civic bronze coinage reflects that long arc of semi-autonomy under shifting masters.
The Moushmov reference places this among a well-documented but frequently misattributed series; provincial Macedonian bronzes of this period are often conflated across neighboring civic mints due to shared iconographic vocabulary.