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Drachm
| Issuer | Kibyra (Phrygia) |
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| Year | 166 BC - 84 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Reverse description | Armored warrior on horseback galloping to the right, brandishing a spear or lance overhead with his right arm while controlling the rearing horse with his left. The rider wears a helmet and military cloak (chlamys) that billows behind him in dynamic motion. Below the horse, a two-line Greek inscription identifies the issuing city. The composition conveys vigorous martial energy characteristic of Hellenistic civic coinage of southwestern Anatolia. |
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| Mint | Kibyra |
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Kibyra occupied an uncomfortable position in the Roman provincial order — the city had backed Perseus of Macedon against Rome, and its subsequent humiliation shaped the civic identity for generations. The drachm coinage of this period, roughly spanning the city's forced reorganization through to the Mithridatic upheavals, represents one of the few ways Kibyra projected authority after its political wings were clipped. SNG von Aulock 3715 places this piece within a well-documented but sparsely populated series.