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Stater
| Issuer | Herakleia Pontika |
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| Year | 352 BC - 345 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Herakleia Pontika was a Milesian colony on the Black Sea coast that punched well above its weight as a minting authority in the fourth century. The city's staters from this period were produced during a stretch of remarkable political turbulence — the tyrant Timotheos, son of Clearchus, held power through much of this window, and the mint's output reflects the ambitions of a dynasty that had seized control of the city in 364 BC and ruled it as a personal fiefdom for decades.
The BMC Greek#16 reference places this piece within a well-documented sequence, though die linkages across the series remain incompletely catalogued.