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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Halikarnassos |
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| Year | 220 BC - 180 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΙΚΑΡ ΝΑΣΣΕΩΝ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Halikarnassos — modern Bodrum on Turkey's Aegean coast — was by this period a city with an outsized political history relative to its size, most famously as the seat of the Hekatomnid dynasts and the birthplace of Herodotus. By the late third century, it had passed through Macedonian and then Seleucid influence before settling into the loose Rhodian sphere that dominated Carian coastal politics. These hemidrachms align metrically with the Rhodian weight standard, a deliberate choice that facilitated trade throughout a region where Rhodian commercial networks were increasingly dominant.