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| Uitgever | Arados |
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| Jaar | 186 BC - 185 BC |
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| Valuta | Drachm |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Draped bust of Tyche facing right, wearing a turreted crown, her hair arranged in waves beneath the mural crown. A palm-frond appears behind the bust. The design is set within a dotted border and rendered in the Hellenistic style characteristic of Phoenician civic coinage of the period. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Arados — the Phoenician island city whose autonomy outlasted most of its neighbors — issued bronze fractions continuously through the Seleucid period while carefully maintaining its own civic coinage. This piece falls within a window when Arados was navigating the aftermath of Antiochus III's defeat at Magnesia in 190 BC, a moment that reshuffled power across the Levantine coast and gave coastal cities renewed room to assert local monetary independence. The city's position on a small island roughly two kilometers offshore made it militarily defensible and commercially indispensable, two qualities that kept its mint active when others went dark.