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Dichalkon - Amphipolis
| Issuer | Amphipolis, City of |
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| Year | 148 BC - 30 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Turreted and draped bust of Artemis (or Tyche) facing right, wearing a stephane or mural crown, with hair rolled and bound; a quiver visible over the right shoulder. The portrait is rendered in the Hellenistic style typical of civic bronze coinage of Macedonia under Roman provincial administration, with naturalistic facial features and finely articulated drapery at the bust truncation. |
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| Mint | Amphipolis |
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Amphipolis had been a Macedonian royal mint of considerable importance before Rome reorganized the region into Macedonia Prima following the defeat of Perseus at Pydna in 168 BC. The city retained its mint rights under the new provincial arrangement, making it one of the few Macedonian civic mints to produce bronze coinage continuously through the transition from kingdom to Roman province.
SNG ANS 106–110 encompasses several obverse and reverse die groupings rather than a single unified type — collectors should cross-reference die axis and fabric carefully when attributing individual specimens to the narrower sequence.