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Didrachm - Charistidas
| Issuer | Knidos |
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| Year | 210 BC - 185 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (210 BC - 185 BC) |
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Knidos, the Carian city built on a narrow peninsula jutting into the Aegean, maintained its own silver coinage well into the Hellenistic period despite increasing pressure from Rhodian commercial dominance in the region. By the early second century, Rhodian weight standards and monetary influence were reshaping coinage across the eastern Aegean — Knidian issues from this window are among the last expressions of the city's independent monetary tradition before that pressure became effectively decisive. The magistrate name Charistidas appears on a narrow range of dies within this period.