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Stater - Damonaktos
| Issuer | Kyrene |
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| Year | 331 BC - 322 BC |
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| Weight | 8.58 g |
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| Obverse lettering | KYPANAION |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kyrene's gold coinage of this period reflects the city's extraordinary wealth derived from silphium, the now-extinct plant traded across the Mediterranean at near-silver weight for-ounce parity. The magistrate name Damonaktos appears on a tight cluster of issues datable to the decade following Alexander's conquest of Egypt in 332 BC, when Kyrene briefly asserted de facto independence under the reformer Thibron and then a succession of local authorities before submitting to Ptolemy's general Ophellas in 322 BC — the terminus for this series.
The Jameson and Naville specimens remain the primary reference points for die linkage studies on this magistrate's output.