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Hemidrachm - Khairemon
| Issuer | Stratonikeia |
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| Year | 130 BC - 88 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Zeus facing right, rendered in the robust Hellenistic style characteristic of Stratonikeia's civic coinage. The hair is depicted in thick, deeply engraved curls bunched at the nape of the neck, and the laurel wreath is visible crowning the brow. The facial features, though worn, convey the majestic and powerful divine character typical of Zeus portraiture in the second and first centuries BC. The flan is irregular and slightly dumpy, consistent with hand-struck provincial silver of this period. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Stratonikeia, the Carian city refounded by the Seleucids in the third century BC, issued civic coinage with growing confidence as Seleucid power receded. The magistrate name Khairemon appears on a small run of hemidrachms datable to the city's period of autonomy before Mithridates VI absorbed much of western Anatolia into his sphere during the First Mithridatic War — the probable terminus for this series.
The SNG von Aulock specimens remain the primary reference points for attribution, reflecting how thinly documented individual Stratonikiean magistrate issues remain in the broader literature.