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Dichalkon - Thessaloniki
| Issuer | Thessaloniki |
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| Year | 187 BC - 31 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Dionysus facing right, wreathed with ivy, the locks of hair rendered in flowing waves. The portrait is executed in the Hellenistic style, with naturalistic facial features. A dotted border encircles the design within the coin's irregular flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thessaloniki was founded around 315 BC by Cassander, who named the city after his wife — Alexander the Great's half-sister — and rapidly developed it into the dominant port of the Macedonian coast. Its civic bronze coinage, produced across a span that encompasses both the Macedonian kingdom's final decades and the city's early existence as a Roman provincial center after 168 BC, reflects a municipal mint operating with considerable continuity through a seismic political transition.
The SNG ANS 764–769 and Copenhagen 345–348 specimens anchor this type firmly within the catalogued civic series. Not all pieces within this range share identical dies, and attribution between sub-types warrants close attention to control marks.