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Issuer Hamaxitos
Year 400 BC - 300 BC
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Weight 1.49 g
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Reverse script Greek
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Mintage ND (400 BC - 300 BC)
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Hamaxitos was a minor Troad settlement whose civic identity was tenuous enough that ancient sources debate whether it functioned as an independent polis or as a dependency of neighboring Alexandria Troas. This small bronze is among the few material confirmations that it operated, at least briefly, as an autonomous issuing authority during the fourth century.

The SNG Copenhagen and Ashmolean references place it in well-documented survey collections, but neither offers die-study detail. Specimens turn up rarely enough that meaningful population data doesn't exist.

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