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Triobol - Euthykles
| Issuer | Argos (Argolis) |
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| Year | 90 BC - 50 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Large capital letter A (Alpha), the civic monogram of Argos, occupying the centre of the design within a recessed incuse square. An owl is placed below the crossbar of the Alpha, serving as a secondary civic or magistrate symbol. The magistrate's name EYΘYKΛEOΣ (genitive of Euthykles) is inscribed in three lines arranged around the Alpha. The entire design is contained within a square incuse punch, characteristic of Peloponnesian coinage of this period. |
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| Reverse lettering | EYΘYKΛEOΣ |
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Argos continued striking silver fractions well into the first century BC despite the broader Greek world's rapid shift toward bronze for small-denomination needs — a conservatism rooted partly in the city's deep Panhellenic prestige and partly in the commercial demands of the Argolid plain. The magistrate name Euthykles appears on a narrow sequence of issues within this period, placing this piece among a small administrative cohort rather than a long production run.
The reference to Peloponnesos 1182 situates it within BCD's landmark collection corpus, the auction of which in 2009 established benchmark prices for Argive silver that had not been systematically catalogued since the nineteenth century.