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Tetradrachm - Hybristos
| Issuer | Miletos |
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| Year | 170 BC - 160 BC |
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| Weight | 16.37 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in fine Hellenistic style with flowing locks of hair falling behind the neck and a laurel wreath crowning the brow. The portrait displays the idealized youthful features characteristic of Apollo in Milesian coinage of the period, with a gently modeled jaw and almond-shaped eye visible in profile. The effigy is set within a prominent beaded border that frames the entire field. |
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| Mint | Miletos |
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Miletos struck this series during a period of uneasy accommodation with Seleucid power, and the "Hybristos" magistrate designation — meaning roughly "the insolent one" — is one of the more arresting personal epithets to survive in Greek numismatic administration. Whether it was a nickname, a formal title, or a term of political irony is unresolved. Deppert-Lippitz catalogued these magistrate-signed Milesian tetradrachms as a coherent group, and the specific die pairing under #758 places this piece within a tightly defined run of the civic series.