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Stater
| Issuer | Tylisus |
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| Year | 320 BC - 270 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Facing right, the laureate head of Hera rendered in archaic Greek style, adorned with a pendant earring and a stephanos (diadem) decorated with palmette motifs. The portraiture reflects the regional Cretan artistic tradition, with carefully rendered facial features and elaborate headdress detail. The field surrounding the deity's effigy is plain, with no visible legend or secondary devices. |
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| Reverse lettering | TYΛIΣON |
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Tylisus was a minor Cretan city-state whose independent coinage output was extremely limited, and this stater represents one of the earliest and most sparsely documented issues in the civic series. The references cluster around a handful of known specimens — the Jameson and Delepierre collection numbers suggest the total surviving population remains in the low dozens at best.
Crete during this period sat outside the main currents of Hellenistic monetary reform, with poleis continuing to strike on the Aeginetan weight standard well after much of the Greek world had shifted. Tylisus would eventually be absorbed by neighboring Knossos, ending its independent mint.