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Æ12 ΤΑΝΑ
| Issuer | Tanagra (Achaea) |
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| Year | 100 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Three-line Greek ethnic inscription ΤΑΝΑΓΡΑΙΩΝ arranged within a wreath of olive or laurel branches, the leaves rendered in low relief encircling the entire field. The lettering is incuse and somewhat irregular in execution, typical of late Hellenistic civic bronze coinage from Boeotia. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΤΑΝΑΓΡΑΙΩΝ |
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Tanagra's autonomous bronze issues of the late Hellenistic period were struck under the loose administrative umbrella of the Achaean League, though the city retained its own civic coinage. By 100 BC, Tanagra was a shadow of the Boeotian city that had given its name to the famous terracotta figurine industry — the workshops producing those statuettes had largely collapsed a generation earlier under the economic pressures following Rome's reorganization of Greece in 146 BC.