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Stater - Timotheos and Dionysios
| Issuer | Herakleia Pontika |
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| Year | 345 BC - 337 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΤΙΜΟΘΕΟΥ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ (Translation: of Timotheos and Dionysios) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Herakleia Pontika's silver staters of this period were issued under the joint tyranny of Timotheos and Dionysios, sons of the dynast Klearchos who had seized power in the city around 364 BC. The Klearchid tyranny was notably brutal even by the standards of the fourth century — Klearchos himself had been a student of Plato before turning to political violence. Timotheos and Dionysios ruled together after their brother Satyros was deposed, a dynastic arrangement that lasted until Dionysios eventually dominated alone.
Herakleia was a Megarian colony and a significant Black Sea trading hub, which explains the quality of its silver coinage relative to its modest political footprint.