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Æ - Leon
| Issuer | Keramos (Caria) |
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| Year | 167 BC - 129 BC |
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| Weight | 6.83 g |
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| Reverse description | Bucranium (facing head of bull) depicted en face, with prominent curved horns extending to the upper left and upper right of the field, and a rounded muzzle with nostrils rendered in relief at centre. The Greek civic legend ΚΕΡΑΜΙΗ is distributed to the right of the bull's head and ΛΕΩΝ to the left, identifying the issuing city of Keramos and the magistrate or ethnic denomination. The field is otherwise plain, with no border visible. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΚΕΡΑΜΙΗ ΛΕΩΝ |
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Keramos was a minor Carian coastal city that spent much of the Hellenistic period caught between the competing ambitions of Rhodes and the Attalid kingdom of Pergamon. The date range of this issue brackets the period following the Roman settlement at Apamea in 188 BC, which stripped Rhodes of its Carian possessions, and ends near the creation of the Roman province of Asia in 129 BC — a political reorganization that effectively ended autonomous civic bronze coinage across much of the region.
The leon type is well-documented across multiple major reference collections, suggesting reasonable survival, though Keramos itself never achieved the civic prominence of nearby Halikarnassos or Knidos.