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Æ20
| Issuer | Euromus |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Cult statue of Zeus Labraundos standing facing, depicted in the characteristic frontal xoanon style with arms outstretched, holding a labrys (double axe) in the right hand and a spear or sceptre in the left. The Greek ethnic legend EYPΩMEΩN is disposed in two columns flanking the cult figure on either side of the field, identifying the issuing city of Euromus in Caria. |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 1 BC) |
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Euromus was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage of the late Hellenistic period reflects the complicated political gymnastics of a region passing between Seleucid, Ptolemaic, and eventually Roman spheres of influence. The city's right to strike bronze was essentially a local privilege tolerated rather than granted, functioning as small-change infrastructure for a market town better known for its later Imperial-period temple of Zeus Lepsynos than for any numismatic distinction.
The century-wide date range assigned to this type reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty rather than loose cataloguing — die studies on Carian civic bronzes of this period remain underdeveloped.