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Æ25
| Issuer | Perinthos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Herakles facing left, rendered in bold relief with a thick beard and heavy features characteristic of late Hellenistic provincial die-cutting. A club is visible over the shoulder behind the head. The portrait is set within a dotted border, with a plain field surrounding the effigy. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Perinthos, the Thracian city on the Propontis, maintained striking autonomy through much of the Hellenistic period despite repeated interference from Macedon and later Bithynia. Philip II famously failed to take the city in 340 BC after a prolonged siege, its steep peninsular topography proving decisive. By the first century BC, civic bronze issues like this one were functionally municipal currency, circulating alongside Seleucid and Roman Republican silver without formal integration into either system.