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| Issuer | Ilion |
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| Year | 300 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Ilion (Troas) |
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Ilion — the Greek city built on or near the ruins of ancient Troy — used its Trojan heritage as the cornerstone of civic identity, and its bronze coinage reflects that self-conscious mythology. The city gained particular prominence after Alexander the Great visited in 334 BC, sacrificed at the tomb of Achilles, and granted Ilion special privileges, a moment the Ilians exploited for generations of political and economic advantage.
The SNG Copenhagen 346 attribution places this piece within a well-documented but modestly studied series. Small bronzes of this type circulated locally in the Troad region during a period when Ilion was rebuilding civic infrastructure under Macedonian-successor political arrangements.