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Didrachm - Nikos
| Issuer | Naxos (Cyclades) |
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| Year | 225 BC - 150 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SNG Copenhagen#710 |
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| Reverse lettering | ΝΑΞΙ ΝΙΚΟΣ |
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| Mint | Naxos (Cyclades) |
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Naxos was the dominant island of the Cyclades and a major Aegean wine-producing center, but by the mid-Hellenistic period its independent coinage had contracted sharply from earlier prolific output. This issue belongs to a phase when many smaller island mints were struggling to maintain silver coinage against the flood of Rhodian and Ptolemaic issues dominating Aegean trade. SNG Copenhagen 710 places it within a known but sparsely documented series, and die studies of Naxian Hellenistic coinage remain incomplete.