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Tetrobol - Kalippos
| Issuer | Knidos |
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| Year | 250 BC - 210 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Knidos occupied a strategically awkward position on the southwestern tip of the Carian peninsula, and its coinage reflects a city perpetually negotiating between Rhodian commercial dominance and the ambitions of successive Hellenistic monarchs. By the mid-third century, Knidian silver had largely ceded ground to Rhodian issues across Aegean trade networks. The magistrate name Kalippos appears on a narrow range of these tetrobols, placing this piece within a tightly defined administrative moment rather than a broad civic series.
The SNG Keckman corpus remains one of the thinner reference points for Carian civic bronze and silver, making die-link studies for this type difficult to pursue beyond a handful of known specimens.