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Didrachm - Epigonos
| Issuer | Knidos |
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| Year | 350 BC - 320 BC |
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| Reference(s) | HN Online#699 Karia#169 , Weber#6474 |
| Obverse description | Three-quarter facing head of Aphrodite, turned slightly to the right, wearing a sphendone hair-net and a pendant earring visible below. The goddess's features are rendered in the fine fourth-century Karian style, with softly modeled cheeks and delicately incised coiffure. A ship's prow appears behind the neck, serving as a secondary device alluding to Knidos's maritime significance. The Greek ethnic legend ΚΝΙΔΙΩΝ runs along the periphery of the flan. The flan itself is broad and irregular, characteristic of hand-hammered Chian-Rhodian standard silver coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Knidos occupied a strategically awkward position on the tip of the Carian peninsula, changing hands between Persian and Aegean powers repeatedly across the fourth century. This issue likely falls within the period following the city's realignment after the King's Peace of 387 BC, when Knidian autonomy operated under constant Persian pressure from the Hekatomnid dynasts ruling Karia from Halikarnassos. The magistrate name Epigonos appears on the die as a control, a practice that helps sequence these issues but rarely survives in documentary sources.