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Tetradrachm - Artaxerxes III / Darios III Halicarnassus
| Uitgever | Achaemenid Empire |
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| Jaar | 350 BC - 333 BC |
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| Vorm | Round (irregular) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | The Persian Great King depicted in the heroic kneeling-running stance to right, wearing the distinctive kidaris (royal tiara) and kandys (sleeved court robe). In his extended right hand he grasps a spear directed forward, while his left hand holds a strung bow. The figure is rendered with careful attention to Achaemenid royal iconography, conveying both martial prowess and regal authority within the shallow relief characteristic of hammered coinage of this series. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The prow of a war galley advancing to right, rendered in detailed profile. The akrostolion at the bow is rendered as a distinctive hornlike projection, while the fighting platform (epibathra) is adorned with a labrys (double-headed axe). Above the principal battering ram (embolon), the proembolon (upper spur) is decorated with a dolphin motif. Below the hull, a wave pattern indicates the waterline, and to the right a small dolphin descends diagonally, reinforcing the maritime theme. The reverse field is otherwise plain, consistent with the local Carian satrapal coinage tradition of Halicarnassus. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Halicarnassus — modern Bodrum — was the seat of the Hekatomnid dynasts, who governed Caria as Persian satraps while maintaining a distinctly Greek cultural orientation. This tetradrachm was struck under that arrangement, with Achaemenid authority nominally backing the issue even as the satrap's court functioned with considerable local autonomy. The dating bracket places it squarely in the turbulent decades when Artaxerxes III was reasserting central Persian control after years of satrapal revolts, including the so-called Great Satraps' Revolt of the 360s.
The series ends with Darios III because Alexander took Halicarnassus by siege in 334 BC after a fierce resistance organized largely by the Macedonian exile Memnon of Rhodes.