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| Issuer | Amphipolis, City of |
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| Year | 187 BC - 168 BC |
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| Weight | 7 g |
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| Reverse description | Two goats rampant, facing one another and rearing on their hind legs in a heraldic fighting pose, their forelegs raised as if locked in combat. The composition is symmetrically arranged within the coin field, a design motif closely associated with Amphipolis and its civic identity. The ethnic inscription AMΦIΠO-ΛI-TΩN appears divided around the device, identifying the issuing city. The exergue line separates the design from the lower field, and the overall style reflects the vigorous engraving tradition of late Macedonian civic bronzes. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Amphipolis remained under Macedonian control through most of the third century, but this issue dates to the period of Roman-supervised autonomy following the Peace of Apamea, when the city was technically free yet operating under the long shadow of Perseus of Macedon. The city's bronze coinage of this period shows no dramatic interruption — civic minting continued with striking regularity right up until the Roman destruction of the Macedonian kingdom at Pydna in 168 BC, after which Amphipolis became the administrative capital of Macedonia Prima under the Roman provincial reorganization.