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BronzeÆ10
| Issuer | Hydisos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Diameter | 10.0 mm |
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| Reverse description | A bird, identified as an eagle, alighting to the right atop a club, wings partially extended in a dynamic pose. The club is depicted horizontally beneath the bird, a device commonly associated with Heraklean symbolism in Carian and Lycian coinage. The ethnic legend ΥΔΙ ΣΕΩΝ is disposed in the field around the type, referencing the civic authority of Hydisos. The overall design is consistent with the small bronze civic issues of inland Caria during the late Hellenistic period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hydisos was a small Carian city whose autonomous bronze coinage remains poorly documented — HN Online 2430 covers the type, but die studies are thin and the city's political relationship with Rhodes during this period is still debated in the literature. These minor Carian bronzes circulated within a tightly regional economy and rarely traveled far, which partly explains why surviving examples are almost exclusively found in southwestern Anatolian contexts.