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Dichalkos Astarte on prow of galley
| Issuer | Sidon |
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| Year | 98 BC - 10 BC |
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| Value | 1 Dichalkos = 2 Chalkon = 1 Tetartemorion = 1/4 Obols = 1⁄24 |
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| Reverse lettering | ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ (Translation: From Sidon) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Sidon's autonomy coinage of this period — issued under Seleucid, then Ptolemaic, then Roman shadow — reflects a city perpetually negotiating its status rather than commanding it. The port had been a Phoenician commercial powerhouse for centuries before these bronzes were struck, and the galley imagery on this type is less decorative choice than civic identity: Sidon's wealth was inseparable from its fleet.
The BMC range of 130–136 encompasses several die groupings with minor variant details that specialists use to tighten the dating within the nearly ninety-year span assigned to the type.