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Chalkon
| Issuer | Miletos |
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| Year | 250 BC - 190 BC |
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| Weight | 0.93 g |
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| Obverse description | Head of Apollo facing right, laureate, rendered in low relief in the archaic Milesian tradition. The portrait occupies the central field of the flan, with the facial features worn but the characteristic laurel wreath partially visible. The irregular flan and rough surfaces are typical of hammered bronze coinage of this period and region. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Miletos had lost much of its political independence by this period, operating under Seleucid and later Ptolemaic influence before asserting greater autonomy in the early second century. These small copper issues served local transactional needs at a time when the city's famous banking activity — Miletos was among the earliest Greek cities to develop sophisticated credit instruments — demanded a functional low-denomination coinage. The type aligns with SNG Copenhagen 993, a well-documented emission within a series that saw considerable die variation across its production span.