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| Issuer | Amphipolis, City of |
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| Year | 187-131 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A bull charging and butting to the right, depicted in dynamic profile with lowered head and muscular body rendered in typical Hellenistic civic bronze style. A monogram appears below the bull in the lower field. The reverse legend, divided on either side of the bull, reads AMΦIΠ OΛITΩN, identifying the issuing authority as the citizens of Amphipolis. The inscription is set within a beaded border consistent with the obverse. |
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| Reverse lettering | AMΦIΠ OΛITΩN (Translation: Amphipolis) |
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Amphipolis sat at the mouth of the Strymon River and changed hands repeatedly between Athens, Sparta, Macedon, and Rome before finally losing its autonomy to the latter after Pydna in 168 BC. This issue falls within the city's final century of autonomous bronze coinage, struck under Macedonian administrative influence but before Rome reorganized the region into Macedonia Prima — after which civic bronze issues from Amphipolis effectively ceased.