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Tetrobol - Rhoikos
| Issuer | Amathus (Cyprus (ancient)) |
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| Year | 350 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Facing head of a roaring lion rendered in high relief, depicted frontally with open jaws baring teeth, prominent mane rendered with deeply incised striated locks radiating outward, and boldly modeled facial features including deeply set eyes and a broad muzzle. The mane fills the greater portion of the flan, with individual locks finely articulated in the archaic Cypriot style. The composition occupies nearly the entire field of the irregularly shaped flan, with no legend or inscription present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Amathus was among the last Cypriot city-kingdoms to resist Hellenization, maintaining close ties with the Phoenician world well into the fourth century. Its coinage consequently developed along lines distinct from the more overtly Greek-influenced mints at Salamis or Paphos. The Rhoikos type specifically belongs to a period when Amathus was navigating the turbulent aftermath of Evagoras I's forced unification of Cyprus under Salaminian hegemony — a political settlement that collapsed almost immediately after his assassination in 374 BC, leaving individual city-kingdoms to reassert local monetary identity.