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Bronze AE25
| Issuer | Kallatis |
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| Year | 300 BC - 101 BC |
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| Weight | 10.1 g |
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| Reverse description | A tall, ornate tripod — the sacred symbol of Apollo — depicted facing, with a cauldron bowl surmounting three elegant legs joined by a stretcher. The tripod is rendered in fine relief and serves as the central type. The Greek legend ΚΑΛΛΑΤΙΑΝΩΝ is divided across the field to the left and right of the tripod, with ΑΠΟΛΛΩ inscribed below. The composition is characteristic of Hellenistic civic bronze coinage from the Black Sea region. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Kallatis, the Dorian colony founded on the western Black Sea coast by settlers from Herakleia Pontika, maintained a remarkably independent mint through centuries of pressure from Lysimachos, then the Macedonian successor kingdoms, then Rome. This bronze series spans nearly two centuries of that tenuous autonomy, interrupted by at least one documented siege — Lysimachos blockaded the city around 313–309 BC in a campaign that nearly ended Kallatian civic life entirely.
The AMNG I-I reference places this type within Pick's foundational Black Sea corpus, cross-confirmed by Mușmov's Bulgarian supplement.