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| Issuer | Gergis |
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| Year | 400 BC - 241 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A sphinx seated to right with wings raised and curled, rendered in fine relief typical of Troad bronze coinage. The abbreviated ethnic legend ΓΕΡ (for Gergis) appears to the right of the figure in the field, while a grain ear is placed in the exergue below, referencing the agricultural significance of the region. |
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| Mint | Gergis, Troad |
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Gergis was a small Troad settlement whose coinage is notable primarily for its association with the Sibyl — the prophetic figure whose cult was localized there and who appears nowhere else as a civic coin type in the Greek world. The city's bronze issues span a remarkably long window, likely reflecting intermittent rather than continuous production, with striking probably concentrated during periods of relative autonomy between Lydian, Persian, and later Macedonian overlordship of the region.
The SNG Copenhagen and von Aulock specimens remain the principal reference points for attribution; die studies on Gergine bronzes are thin, and provenance for most examples traces back to 19th-century Anatolian dispersals.