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Tetradrachm - Dionysios and Kallis
| Issuer | Athens (Attica) |
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| Year | 118 BC - 117 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This piece belongs to the New Style coinage Athens introduced around 196 BC, replacing the archaic "owls" with a magistrate-identified series that named the officials responsible for each issue. Dionysios and Kallis served as the two primary magistrates for this emission, with a third name typically appearing on the reverse as well. The system was almost certainly adopted to facilitate accountability as Athens navigated its increasingly constrained autonomy under Roman influence — the coinage needed to project civic credibility it could no longer back with genuine independence.
Thompson's monumental 1961 study remains the definitive reference for sequencing these magistrate pairs by die linkage.