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Drachm - Νikon and Aristippou
| Issuer | Apollonia Pontika |
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| Year | 200 BC - 80 BC |
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| Weight | 3.55 g |
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| Obverse description | Cow standing left, suckling a calf beneath her; the magistrate's name ΝΙΚΩΝ appears in the upper field above the animals, with a caduceus (staff of Hermes) positioned in the lower field below. The composition is rendered in an archaic yet vigorous style characteristic of Apollonian coinage. The entire design is enclosed within a dotted border. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΝΙΚΩΝ (Translation: Nikon) |
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Apollonia Pontika — the Black Sea Greek colony founded by Miletus around 610 BC — struck these drachms across a remarkably long production window, with the magistrate name pairings serving as the primary chronological anchors for modern scholars. The Nikon and Aristippou pairing correlates to a later phase of the series, when the city was already under increasing pressure from Thracian neighbors and, eventually, Roman commercial dominance of the region. Sulla sacked Apollonia in 84 BC and removed the famous bronze colossus of Apollo — the city never fully recovered.