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Tetradrachm - Artemidoros
| Issuer | Kolophon |
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| Year | 160 BC - 140 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Apollo seated left on an omphalos, nude to the waist with drapery across his lap, holding a kithara (lyre) with both hands in a pose of musical performance. To the right, a small figure — likely a deer or symbolic animal — stands in the lower field. The entire central type is framed by a wreath of laurel or olive branches. The magistrate's name ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡΟΣ appears in the lower exergual area in Greek characters, while the ethnic ΚΟΛΟΦΩΝΙΩΝ is inscribed vertically along the left inner field within the wreath. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kolophon's silver coinage of this period was struck under the broader framework of the Cistophoric monetary zone that Rome allowed to flourish across western Asia Minor after Magnesia in 190 BC — but this issue sits outside that system, maintaining the Attic-weight tetradrachm standard at a moment when cistophori were rapidly displacing it. The magistrate name Artemidoros appears across a small cluster of dies, suggesting a brief tenure or a tightly controlled issue rather than sustained production.