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| Issuer | Kallatis |
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| Year | 300 BC - 101 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Dionysos facing right, his curly hair bound with an ivy wreath, rendered in the Hellenistic style typical of Pontic civic bronzes. The portrait is youthful and idealized, with flowing locks visible below the wreath. The field is plain, with no surrounding legend. The coin flan is irregular, consistent with hand-struck production. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Kallatis, the Doric colony founded by Herakleia Pontika on the western Black Sea coast, struck bronze coinage throughout a period of near-constant external pressure — Macedonian hegemony, Lysimachus's brutal siege in the early third century, and repeated Thracian incursions. The city endured the siege long enough to outlast Lysimachus himself, who died at Korupedion in 281 BC. SNG Copenhagen 178 places this piece within a well-documented civic series, though the two-century attribution window reflects genuine difficulty in sequencing Kallatian bronzes without hoard context.