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Drachm
| Issuer | Itanos |
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| Year | 370 BC - 360 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SvoronosCr#36, SNG Copenhagen#475, BMC Greek#13 |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (370 BC - 360 BC) |
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Itanos occupied the far northeastern tip of Crete, and its coinage reflects a city that lived by maritime trade rather than agricultural wealth. The drachm series to which this piece belongs was produced during a period when Itanos functioned as one of the island's more active port communities, with documented commercial ties reaching across the eastern Mediterranean. The city later became a flashpoint in a prolonged territorial dispute with Hierapytna — a conflict that dragged through the Hellenistic period and eventually drew a ruling from Rome in the second century BC.
The Svoronos and Copenhagen references anchor this firmly within the principal documented die sequence for the series.