Tetradrachm

Beschrijving voorzijde	Draped bust of Tyche facing right, wearing a turreted mural crown with multiple tower battlements rendered in fine detail. The hair is elaborately styled with wavy locks falling along the neck and a spiral curl behind the ear. The facial features are rendered in high relief in the Hellenistic style, with a sensitively modeled profile, almond-shaped eye, and softly defined lips. The field is encircled by a border of dots.
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Oplage	ND (300 BC - 100 BC)
Aanvullende informatie	Marathos was a Phoenician city on a small island just off the Syrian coast, connected to the mainland by a causeway. It maintained its own autonomous coinage for longer than most Phoenician cities, continuing to strike silver well into the period when Seleucid authority was tightening across the region. The city was eventually destroyed by the neighboring city of Arados — its bitter rival — around 148 BC, which places a hard terminus on this coinage and makes later dates in the production range considerably scarcer than earlier ones.