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Æ11
| Issuer | Abydos |
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| Year | 320 BC - 200 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in the archaic Greek style characteristic of Troad civic coinage. The effigy displays the god's youthful features with a wreath of laurel encircling the head. The surfaces show typical die-struck irregularity consistent with hand-hammered bronze coinage of the Hellenistic period. The portrait occupies the central field with minimal peripheral detail. |
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| Reverse description | Standing eagle facing right, wings closed, depicted in profile across the central field. The legend ΑΒΥ, an abbreviation for Abydos, appears to the left of the eagle, while an amphora is positioned beneath the bird's belly. Additional lettering is placed above the eagle's back, all elements arranged within a plain circular border typical of Hellenistic civic bronze issues. |
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Abydos held one of the most strategically valuable positions in the ancient world — controlling the narrowest crossing of the Hellespont — and the city's autonomous bronze coinage reflects the brief window of civic independence it exercised between Achaemenid withdrawal and eventual Pergamene absorption. This small denomination would have circulated almost exclusively within the local market, the kind of fractional bronze that rarely traveled far from its mint city.