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| Emittent | Tomis (Thrace) |
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| Jahr | 44 BC - 42 BC |
| Typ | Standard circulation coin |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Diademed head of the deified Alexander the Great facing right, wearing the horn of Ammon curling behind his ear, his wild flowing locks rendered in high relief in the characteristic Lysimachean style. The portrait, derived from the iconic type established by Lysimachus of Thrace in the early third century BC, presents Alexander with idealised, youthful features. The flan is broad and slightly irregular, consistent with the hammered production of a provincial civic mint. No legend appears on the obverse. |
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| Reversschrift | Greek |
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Tomis, the Black Sea Greek colony later immortalized as Ovid's place of exile, struck this gold stater during the chaotic aftermath of Caesar's assassination. The issue invokes Lysimachus — dead for over two and a half centuries by this point — as a legitimizing fiction, a practice common among Thracian and Pontic mints seeking to project Hellenistic authority during the Roman civil wars. The period 44–42 BC bracketed the campaigns that ended at Philippi, and civic mints throughout the northeastern Aegean scrambled to produce coinage capable of paying troops and securing allegiances from whichever faction controlled the region at any given moment.