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Æ20
| Issuer | Antandros (Troad) |
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| Year | 350 BC - 250 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SNG Copenhagen 233 |
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| Reverse description | A goat standing right in profile, rendered in naturalistic style with clearly delineated legs, body, and horns. The ethnic inscription ΑΝΤΑΝΔΡΩΝ curves around the upper field, identifying the issuing city of Antandros. A small symbol or control mark appears in the field above the animal's back. The composition is well-centred within the irregular flan, typical of Troadean civic bronze issues of this period. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΝΤΑΝΔΡΩΝ (Translation: Antandros) |
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Antandros occupied a strategically awkward position on the southern slope of Mount Ida, close enough to the Troad's timber reserves to matter commercially but perpetually caught between larger powers — Persian satraps, Athenian ambitions, and later Macedonian consolidation. The city briefly fell under Athenian control in the fifth century before reverting. Its autonomous bronze coinage, of which this is an example, represents one of the few material traces of the city's independent civic identity during what was an increasingly precarious century.
SNG Copenhagen 233 is the standard reference anchor for this type. The series is sparsely documented, and die studies remain incomplete.