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Didrachm - Sostratos
| Issuer | Knidos |
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| Year | 210 BC - 185 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΚΝΙ ΣΩΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ |
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Knidos sat at the southwestern tip of the Carian peninsula, and its coinage from this period reflects the city's complicated position between Rhodian commercial dominance and the shifting allegiances following the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. The magistrate name Sostratos appearing on this issue places it within a civic series where named officials served as a form of municipal accountability — and occasionally as a means of tracing monetary fraud back to a responsible party.
Knidian silver of this weight class was closely tied to the Rhodian weight standard, a deliberate alignment that facilitated trade across the Aegean and into Ptolemaic Egypt.