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Hemidrachm

Issuer Parion (Mysia)
Year 350 BC - 320 BC
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Reference(s) CN type#21211
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (350 BC - 320 BC)
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Parion sat on the Propontis at a strategically awkward crossing point between the Aegean world and the Black Sea routes, which made it prosperous and periodically contested. The hemidrachm series from this period — the last decades before Alexander's conquests reshuffled the monetary order across Anatolia — was likely struck while the city operated under loose Persian suzerainty, issuing its own silver with a degree of autonomy that would not survive the Macedonian reorganization intact.

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