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| Issuer | Abydos |
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| Year | 320 BC - 200 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΒΥ |
| Edge | Plain |
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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.