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Dichalkon - Amphipolis
| Issuer | Amphipolis, City of |
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| Year | 187 BC - 167 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A lit torch set vertically at centre, flanked on either side by a racing torch or similar cult implement, all enclosed within an olive or laurel wreath border that frames the entire reverse field. The ethnic legend AMΦIΠOΛITΩN is distributed around the devices within or along the inner wreath border, identifying the issuing city of Amphipolis. The composition is characteristic of the civic bronze coinage of Amphipolis during the Macedonian period, with bold, slightly crude relief typical of hammered municipal issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | AMΦIΠOΛITΩN (Translation: Amphipolis) |
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Amphipolis occupied one of the most strategically valuable positions in the ancient Greek world — controlling the lowest bridgeable point of the Strymon River — and the Macedonian kings understood this better than anyone. Philip II seized it in 357 BC and never let go. This bronze issue, however, dates to the city's final decades under Macedonian hegemony, before Rome dismantled the kingdom entirely at Pydna in 168 BC and reorganized Macedonia into four separate republics the following year.
After 167 BC, Amphipolis became capital of the first of those four Macedonian merides, ending the city's autonomous civic coinage tradition.