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| Issuer | Ilion (Troad) |
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| Year | 133 BC - 119 BC |
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| Weight | 5.19 g |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, wearing a Corinthian helmet with a prominent raised crest and flared cheekpieces, rendered in the Hellenistic tradition. The neck and upper drapery are visible below the bust, exhibiting fine engraving characteristic of Troadic civic coinage. The portrait fills the flan without surrounding legend, the field otherwise plain. The overall style reflects the influence of Pergamene artistic conventions prevalent in the region during the second century BC. |
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| Reverse lettering | IΛI (Translation: Ilion) |
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Ilion's civic bronze coinage of this period reflects the city's privileged status under Rome following 133 BC, when the Attalid kingdom of Pergamon was bequeathed to the Roman people by Attalos III. Rome had long cultivated a sentimental attachment to Ilion — the supposed ancestral homeland of Aeneas — and the city enjoyed tax exemptions and political favor that stretched back to the early second century. That relationship shaped which cities continued to strike autonomous bronze after the Roman reorganization of the province of Asia, and Ilion was among them.