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Issuer Argos Amphilochikon
Year 360 BC - 330 BC
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Diameter 22 mm
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Obverse script Greek
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Edge Plain
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Argos Amphilochikon occupied a contested strip of territory in the Ambracian Gulf region, claimed at various points by both Acarnania and Epirus. The city's coinage aligns it administratively with the Acarnanian federation during the mid-fourth century, a period when smaller poleis in the northwest leaned heavily on federal structures for protection against Macedonian expansion under Philip II. Issues attributable to this mint are genuinely scarce — the settlement was never large, and the window of independent civic coinage was brief.

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