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| Issuer | Abydos (Troad) |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | A stag stands in profile to the right, depicted in a naturalistic Hellenistic style with carefully rendered musculature and legs. Immediately in front of the stag rises a cypress tree, a sacred symbol associated with Abydos and its cult of Artemis. The abbreviation ΑΒΥ, denoting the civic ethnic of Abydos, appears in the upper field behind the stag. The entire central device is enclosed within a circular laurel wreath, its berried branches framing the composition with a decorative border. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Abydos sat at the narrowest point of the Hellespont, and whoever controlled it controlled the grain route from the Black Sea to the Aegean. The city's strategic value made it a recurring flashpoint — most notably in 200 BC, when Philip V of Macedon besieged it for months, triggering the Roman ultimatum that pulled Rome into Greek affairs and ultimately ended Macedonian independence at Cynoscephalae two years later. Bronze civic coinage of this period was almost certainly circulating during that siege.