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| Issuer | Gergis |
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| Year | 400 BC - 241 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Sphinx seated to the right with wings raised, rendered in a compact, stylized manner consistent with Troad civic iconography. A grain ear appears in the exergue beneath the figure. The ethnic abbreviation ΓΕΡ (for Gergis) is inscribed in the field, identifying the issuing city. The die work is bold but somewhat roughly executed, typical of small bronze coinage from this period. |
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| Mint | Gergis, Troad |
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Gergis was a small Troad settlement whose coins are notable partly because scholars long debated whether the head appearing on its issues depicted a local deity or the Sibyl Herophile, who ancient sources specifically associate with Gergis as her birthplace. The geographer Strabo names her among the most celebrated of the Sibyls, and the identification, though contested, has driven outsized collector interest in this otherwise minor civic bronze.