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Drachm
| Issuer | Kibyra (Phrygia) |
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| Year | 166 BC - 84 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Bare male head facing right, wearing a crested Attic helmet with cheekpieces and a prominent forward-curving crest, rendered in competent Hellenistic style. The facial features are well modelled with a strong jawline, almond-shaped eye, and a slightly parted lip, consistent with a youthful heroic or divine portrait. The helmet bowl is decorated with a forepart of an animal, likely a griffin or eagle, above the cheekguard. The portrait fills the flan with no surrounding legend, typical of the civic silver coinage of Kibyra. |
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| Mintage | ND (166 BC - 84 BC) |
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Kibyra was an unusually powerful city for inland Phrygia — its league with neighboring Bubon, Balboura, and Oinoanda controlled enough territory that Rome formally dissolved the federation in 167 BC after deciding the arrangement had grown too politically convenient for local dynasts and too inconvenient for Roman interests. This coinage likely begins almost immediately after that dissolution, when Kibyra continued striking silver independently despite the reorganization of the surrounding region into what would eventually become the province of Asia.
The series runs to the Mithridatic disruptions of 88–84 BC, when Pontic forces swept through western Anatolia and civic coinage across the region collapsed or went underground.