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Octadrachm
| Issuer | Tyre |
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| Year | 104 BC - 103 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | TYPOY IEPAΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣYΛOY ΓΚ |
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| Mint | Tyre |
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Tyre regained autonomous mint rights from the Seleucid crown around 126/125 BC, and the city wasted little time asserting that independence through an ambitious gold coinage. The octadrachm denomination had strong Ptolemaic associations — it was the prestige vehicle of Alexandrian royal issues — and Tyre's adoption of it carried deliberate political weight in a region still contested between Seleucid remnants and expanding Roman influence.
GCV 5917 places this among the earliest decades of Tyrian autonomous production. Gold issues from this mint are substantially rarer than the city's celebrated silver shekels, which dominated Levantine commerce and later Temple tax payments for generations.