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| Issuer | Abydos |
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| Year | 375 BC - 325 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΒΥ |
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| Mintage | ND (375 BC - 325 BC) |
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Abydos, positioned at the narrowest point of the Hellespont, controlled one of antiquity's most strategically critical straits — a chokepoint through which Persian armies, Athenian grain fleets, and Macedonian ambitions all eventually passed. The city issued bronze coinage primarily for local market transactions, the silver issues being reserved for larger commercial exchange with passing maritime traffic.
CN type 21839 falls within a period when Abydos shifted between Persian satrapal oversight and varying degrees of autonomy, following the destabilization of Achaemenid control in the Aegean after the King's Peace of 387 BC.