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Stater - Agathokles
| Issuer | Kios |
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| Year | 340 BC - 330 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Prow of a war galley (trireme) directed to the left, its hull decorated with a star motif. Above the prow, a club is depicted horizontally, a symbol associated with Herakles. In the left field, an eagle stands facing left, serving as an additional dynastic or civic symbol. The ethnic legend AΓAΘOKΛHΣ is arranged in two lines divided across the field, identifying the magistrate or issuing authority. The composition is characteristic of Bithynian civic coinage of the late 4th century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kios, the Bithynian Greek city on the Propontis, struck very little gold on its own authority — this stater belongs to a narrow window of autonomous issue before the city fell under Macedonian and then Bithynian pressure in the late fourth century. The magistrate name Agathokles appears on only a handful of known specimens, making this among the more personal of the city's rare gold emissions.
The De Luynes 2415 variety designation signals a die difference from the cabinet piece recorded in that nineteenth-century collection — worth tracking against Recueil des monnaies grecques if pursuing attribution more precisely.