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Dichalkon
| Issuer | Aigeai |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SNG France#2300 |
| Obverse description | Draped bust of Tyche facing right, wearing a turreted mural crown with multiple battlements and a flowing veil behind, rendered in Hellenistic style with fine facial detail. The portrait is set within a beaded border, with no legend on the obverse field. The effigy displays characteristic late Hellenistic workmanship, with carefully articulated drapery visible at the shoulder. |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 1 BC) |
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Aigeai was a coastal city in Cilicia whose bronze coinage of this period reflects the town's complicated position under successive Seleucid and later Roman provincial administration. The dichalkon denomination itself — worth two chalkoi — was the workhorse of small local transactions, rarely traveling far from its city of issue, which is precisely why well-provenanced examples tied to specific sites carry more weight with researchers than the coins themselves might suggest.
SNG France 2300 provides the principal reference, with the Bibliothèque nationale holding the type specimen.