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Drachm - Sosikrates and Nikonos
| Issuer | Apollonia Pontika |
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| Year | 229 BC - 100 BC |
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| Weight | 2.65 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Central double stellate or grating pattern rendered as a rectangular grid of vertical lines framed within a concave-sided square, evoking the anchor symbol emblematic of Apollonia Pontika; the city ethnic ΑΠΟΛ disposed across the upper field and the magistrate name ΝΙΚΩΝΟΣ (Nikonos) distributed around the remaining field. A linear border encircles the entire reverse design. |
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Apollonia Pontika, the Milesian colony on the Black Sea coast of Thrace, produced its drachms under named magistrates — Sosikrates and Nikonos appear together as the issuing authority on this piece, a pairing that anchors it within the city's late autonomous coinage before Roman commercial dominance reshaped the region's monetary arrangements. The city had already suffered Lucullus's plundering of its famous Apollon statue in 72 BC, carried to Rome as a trophy of the Third Mithridatic War. Ceka's die study remains the essential reference for sequencing these magistrate pairings.