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Tetradrachm - Herakleides, Euklesi... and Dionysos
| Issuer | Athens |
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| Year | 105 BC - 104 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Issued under the magistrates Herakleides, Eukleides, and Dionysos, this piece belongs to the so-called New Style series that Athens adopted around 166 BC following the Roman grant of Delos as a free port — an arrangement that flooded the city with commercial traffic and demanded a reformed, internationally recognizable coinage. The New Style tetradrachm was Athens' answer to the dominance of Macedonian royal types across eastern Mediterranean trade routes.
By 105/104 BC, Athenian civic finances were increasingly strained by the First Mithridatic War's approaching disruptions. Thompson 745c places this emission within a well-documented magistrate sequence, making die linkage studies tractable for specialists working the series.