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Triobol - Agathokleos
| Issuer | Argos |
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| Year | 90 BC - 40 BC |
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| Diameter | 15 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΟΣ |
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| Mintage | ND (90 BC - 40 BC) |
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Argos maintained a remarkably persistent civic coinage through the late Hellenistic period even as Roman power steadily absorbed the administrative functions of Peloponnesian poleis. The magistrate name Agathokleos on this triobol places it within a sequence of named issues that scholars use to construct the relative chronology of Argive bronze and silver output — the magistrate names being, in many cases, the only available anchor point.
The half-drachm denomination itself had deep roots in the Argive monetary tradition, keeping local fractional coinage alive long after many neighboring cities had abandoned silver for civic bronze entirely.