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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Bargylia (Caria) |
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| Year | 180 BC - 140 BC |
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| Weight | 1.67 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Bargylia |
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Bargylia was a coastal Carian city whose autonomy fluctuated sharply during the second century BC, caught between Rhodian influence and the competing pressures of Pergamon and Rome. The city's independent coinage — of which this hemidrachm is part — was struck during a window when Bargylia managed to assert nominal self-governance, likely following Rome's curtailment of Rhodian power after 167 BC, which destabilized the entire regional hierarchy and allowed smaller Carian poleis brief monetary independence.