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Tetrachalkon
| Issuer | Lakedaimon |
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| Year | 48 BC - 35 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and draped bust of Lakedaimon facing right, the hair arranged in a long braid falling behind the neck, set within a dotted border. The portrait is rendered in a late Hellenistic style, with clearly defined facial features including a prominent nose and chin. The diadem is visible across the top of the head, and the drapery is indicated at the base of the bust. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Lakedaimon — Roman Sparta — struck bronze coinage during this period as a civic authority operating under Roman provincial oversight, its independent monetary production a relic of the city's carefully cultivated reputation as a living museum of Archaic Greek customs. Roman administrators generally indulged Spartan civic pride; the city traded heavily on its mythologized past to attract wealthy tourists and secure patronage from Roman elites.
The BCD collection, from which the primary reference derives, remains the defining assemblage for Peloponnesian bronzes — its 2006 Leu auction catalog still the essential scholarly resource for attributing these issues.