Didrachm - Epidamos

Knidos occupied a strategically awkward peninsula on the southwestern tip of Anatolia, and its coinage reflects the city's perpetual negotiation between Greek civic identity and the Persian-controlled interior. The designation "Epidamos" on this type refers to the harbor district, a detail that distinguishes issues tied to maritime commercial activity rather than civic or religious distribution. Knidos was one of the six cities of the Dorian Hexapolis, and its mint was active enough through the fourth century to produce well-differentiated emission series — HN Online 698 placing this piece precisely within the Karian regional sequence.