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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Halikarnassos |
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| Year | 400 BC - 380 BC |
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| Weight | 15.04 g |
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| Reverse lettering | AΛIKAPNAΣ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Halikarnassos — modern Bodrum on the southwestern Anatolian coast — was a dynastic seat under the Hekatomnid satrapal family, who governed Karia as nominal Persian vassals while aggressively pursuing Hellenizing cultural policies. This tetradrachm predates the dynasty's peak under Maussollos but falls squarely within the period of consolidating local monetary authority, when Karian dynasts were asserting economic independence through coin production despite operating within the Achaemenid imperial framework.
The weight standard follows Rhodian rather than Attic norms — a deliberate alignment with Aegean trade networks rather than Persian-influenced inland systems.