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Tetrobol - Herakleidas
| Issuer | Damastion (Illyria) |
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| Year | 365 BC - 345 BC |
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| Weight | 2.26 g |
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| Reverse description | A tripod-lebes set upon a decorated base occupies the central field, rendered in fine detail with a kettle supported by three legs terminating in feet. A sacrificial knife is depicted to the left of the tripod. The magistrate's name ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΟ (Herakleidas) is inscribed partially on the base and continuing to the right of the tripod in Greek letters, identifying this issue as struck under his authority. The composition is typical of the Damastion silver coinage, where the tripod serves as the principal civic type referencing the city's mineral wealth and religious associations. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΟ |
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Damastion was a short-lived silver-mining polis in the Illyrian interior whose exact location remains debated — most scholars place it somewhere in the region of modern North Macedonia or northern Albania. The city's coinage exists almost entirely because of its mines, and the magistrate name Herakleidas appears across a small cluster of dies, suggesting a concentrated period of issue rather than continuous production. May's catalogue remains the foundational reference for this series precisely because the corpus is so small that a single specialist could document it nearly completely.