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Drachm
| Issuer | Kyrene |
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| Year | 500 BC - 480 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Mint | Kyrene |
| Mintage | ND (500 BC - 480 BC) |
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Kyrene's early coinage was entirely bound up in one commodity: silphium, the now-extinct plant whose export made the city one of the wealthiest Greek colonies in North Africa. The plant appears so relentlessly on Kyrenaean issues of this period precisely because the civic treasury and the silphium trade were functionally inseparable — this was money backed by a monopoly crop rather than by a mint's reputation alone.
The SNG Copenhagen 1165 attribution places this firmly in the archaic series predating Kyrene's alignment with the Battiad dynasty's final decades.