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Didrachm - Anaxik...
| Issuer | Paros (Cyclades) |
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| Year | 225 BC - 150 BC |
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| Weight | 7.58 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of a female deity, most likely Artemis, facing right with hair elegantly drawn back and secured with a ribbon wound three times around the head, the loose ends falling at the nape. The portrait is rendered in the naturalistic Hellenistic style, with delicate facial features and carefully detailed coiffure. The field is plain and unlettered. |
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| Mintage | ND (225 BC - 150 BC) |
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Paros punched above its weight in the Hellenistic silver market — the island's famous white marble brought enough trade traffic to sustain a coinage well into the second century BC, long after many smaller Cycladic mints had gone quiet. By this period the island had passed through Macedonian influence and sat within the orbit of the Rhodian commercial network, which likely drove continued demand for locally struck silver of this weight standard.
The name fragment "Anaxik—" belongs to a magistrate series documented across several die pairings in the referenced corpora, with Weber 2236 and the Rhousopoulos specimen offering the closest parallels for die identification.