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Æ16 D D
| Issuer | Tyndaris (Sicilia) |
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| Year | 100 BC - 27 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Facing janiform head of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), depicted in low relief with two conical pilei (felt caps) visible above the twin busts. The figures are rendered frontally in a schematic, archaic style characteristic of late Sicilian civic bronze coinage. The surface bears a dark green patina with encrustation consistent with extended burial. No legend is present on this side. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tyndaris was a Sicilian Greek city founded by Dionysius I of Syracuse in 396 BC as a settlement for Messenian refugees, and it remained one of the last holdouts of Greek civic identity on the island under Roman provincial administration. The D D abbreviation in the type designation refers to a decreto decurionum — by decree of the town council — marking this as a locally authorized bronze issue rather than a Roman imperial emission, a distinction that mattered deeply to communities still asserting municipal autonomy during the late Republican period.