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Drachme - Niken and Autoboulos
| Issuer | Apollonia Pontica |
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| Year | 229 BC - 80 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Apollonia Pontica |
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Apollonia Pontica, a Milesian colony on the Black Sea coast of Thrace, struck this drachm series over a remarkably long production window — nearly a century and a half. The magistrate names Niken and Autoboulos appear as issuing officials, a practice common to Greek civic coinages where rotating magistrates provided a dating mechanism that modern scholarship has only partially decoded for this mint.
The city's silver coinage depended heavily on trade revenues from its position as a dominant port in the Pontic grain routes. By the later end of this issue's range, Apollonia was already within Rome's expanding orbit following Lucullus's sack of the city in 72 BC, which included the removal of the famous Calamis bronze of Apollo.