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| Issuer | Simyra |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Diademed head of Zeus facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic tradition with strong, idealized facial features. The diadem is clearly visible across the brow, and the portrait displays characteristic divine gravitas typical of civic bronze coinage from Phoenicia in the second to first century BC. A partial Greek legend is visible in the field, though largely obscured by wear and the coin's irregular flan. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Simyra was a Phoenician coastal city in northern Syria, known to classical sources as a staging point for Seleucid military operations and periodically contested between the Ptolemies and Seleucids during the Syrian Wars. Bronze civic issues from the city are rare enough that the Lindgren corpus remains a primary reference decades after publication.