Artemisia I of Caria belongs to Series 5, part of Cardsmiths Currency, a premium collector line tracing the history of money from ancient coinage to cryptocurrency. Melanie Templin handled the artwork. The set runs to 167 cards, and this is number 37. Across the set's parallels it appears in 25 variants, the rarest of which is Onyx, limited to 1.
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Artemisia I of Caria was the queen of the Anatolian region of Caria and a naval commander known for her role in personally commanding ships at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC during the Greco-Persian Wars. As an ally of Xerxes I, she fought against the independent Greek city states during the second Persian invasion of Greece and helped secure Persian control over key trade routes.
