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.
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.