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| Issuer | Imbros (Thrace) |
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| Year | 276 BC - 167 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of a male deity, most likely Hermes, facing right, wearing a broad-brimmed petasos hat. The hair is rendered in loose, wavy locks beneath the hat brim. The neck and shoulder are draped, with the truncation visible at the lower right. The style is characteristic of Hellenistic provincial bronze coinage, with somewhat rustic engraving typical of island mints of the northern Aegean. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΙΜΒΡΟΥ |
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Imbros, a small island in the northeastern Aegean, passed through Athenian, Macedonian, and eventually Roman hands across this coin's possible date range. Athens held the island as a clerouchy — a settled garrison colony — for much of the classical period, but Macedonian control under the successors disrupted that arrangement. Local bronze issues like this one suggest a degree of autonomous civic function persisted regardless of who nominally controlled the island.