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Tetradrachm - Niketes, Dionysios and Demo...
| Issuer | Athens |
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| Year | 97 BC - 96 BC |
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| Weight | 16.96 g |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena Parthenos facing right, wearing a richly ornamented Attic helmet adorned with a palmette finial and elaborate floral and serpent decoration on the bowl; the goddess's hair flows in long waves beneath the helmet cheek-guards. The portrait is rendered in the distinctive late New Style Athenian manner, with fine high-relief modelling typical of the period. A dotted border encircles the field. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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This piece belongs to the so-called "New Style" Athenian tetradrachm series, introduced around 196 BC as Athens reasserted control over its own silver coinage after the disruptions of the Macedonian period. Each issue was administered by a board of magistrates whose names appeared on the coin — here Niketes, Dionysios, and Demo — a system that has allowed modern scholars to construct a remarkably precise chronology of the series. By the late second century BC, Athens was operating in an increasingly Roman-dominated Aegean, and these coins circulated as a trusted trade currency well beyond Attica itself.