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Tetradrachm - Tripolis Aradian Standard
| Issuer | Tripolis (Phoenician cities) |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Weight | 15.05 g |
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| Obverse description | Jugate laureate and draped busts of the Dioskouroi facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic style, with a six-pointed star positioned above each bust in the field. The double portrait is set against a plain field with no surrounding legend. The busts are depicted in close profile, the figures overlapping in the characteristic synoptic arrangement associated with the twin deities Castor and Pollux. |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of the city-goddess Tyche, turreted and draped, depicted en face with her head turned to the left. In her raised right hand she holds a ship's tiller (rudder), symbol of maritime dominion, while her left hand supports a cornucopiae (horn of plenty), emblematic of civic prosperity. The Greek legend ΤΡΙΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟΝΟΜΟΥ is disposed around the field, identifying the issuing city of Tripolis as holy and autonomous, with the date letters ΘΕ ΒΛ appearing in the exergue or field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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