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Siglos
| Issuer | Amisos |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Value | Siglos (1) |
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| Reverse description | Owl depicted full-face with wings spread, standing upon a round shield; the composition is a bold and emblematic type reminiscent of Athenian iconographic influence adapted for local Pontic coinage. To either side of the owl in the field appear the Greek letters Δ and H. In the exergue below the shield, the abbreviated civic legend MH is inscribed. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Amisos, the Greek colony on the southern Black Sea coast, occupied an awkward political position throughout the fourth century — nominally independent at times, under Persian satrapal pressure at others, and eventually absorbed into the Pontic kingdom. A civic silver issue from this period that escapes the standard SNG corpora entirely is genuinely unusual; the absence from Black Sea, Copenhagen, and von Aulock simultaneously points to either a very small surviving population or a type published only in more specialized regional literature.
The siglos weight standard connects this issue to Persian-influenced metrology common across Anatolia at the time.