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Dichalkon Tripolis
| Issuer | Tripolis |
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| Year | 25 BC - 24 BC |
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| Diameter | 20 mm |
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| Obverse description | Turreted and veiled bust of Tyche facing right, wearing a mural crown with veil falling behind, adorned with a stylis at the shoulder. The portrait is rendered in the Hellenistic tradition, with softly modeled facial features. The field is plain, with no surrounding legend. The flan shows characteristic irregularity typical of provincially struck hammered bronzes of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tripolis, the Phoenician coastal city whose name derived from its federation of three constituent communities — Tyre, Sidon, and Arados — maintained its own civic bronze coinage well into the early imperial period. This issue falls precisely within the years Augustus was consolidating Roman control over the eastern provinces following Actium, a moment when cities like Tripolis were navigating the careful politics of demonstrating loyalty while preserving civic identity through local coinage.
RPC I 4512 is a relatively scarce civic bronze; surviving examples are often heavily patinated from their Mediterranean coastal provenance.