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Triobol - Philokles
| Issuer | Argos (Argolis) |
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| Year | 90 BC - 50 BC |
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| Weight | 2.37 g |
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| Reverse description | A large Greek letter Alpha (Α) dominates the central field, serving as the monogram for Argos. The magistrate's name ΦΙΛΟΚΛΗΣ (Philokles) is inscribed in three lines arranged around the Alpha, with a small amphora or lekythos positioned below the crossbar of the letter. The entire design is set within a shallow incuse square, a hallmark of Aeginetan-standard coinage from the northeastern Peloponnese. The lettering is clear and well-formed in the Greek alphabet, consistent with late Hellenistic civic issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΦΙΛΟΚΛΗΣ |
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Philokles served as a magistrate at Argos during a period when the city was navigating the turbulent aftermath of Roman intervention in Greek affairs following the sacking of Corinth in 146 BC. Argive civic coinage continued under magistrate names well into the first century BC, a persistence that distinguishes Argos from many Peloponnesian cities that effectively ceased independent silver production after Roman reorganization of the region.
The Peloponnesos reference corpus remains one of the more thinly documented for this late Hellenistic series, and individual magistrate attributions like this one rely heavily on die-linkage studies conducted in the late twentieth century.