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Æ20
| Issuer | Alexandreia |
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| Year | 302 BC - 301 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Horse grazing right, depicted with naturalistic musculature and lowered head, standing on a ground line. A grain kernel or ear of grain appears in the exergue below the ground line, serving as a civic symbol. The composition is typical of the bronze coinage of Alexandreia Troas, emphasizing the city's agricultural prosperity and equestrian traditions. |
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| Mint | Alexandreia Troas |
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Alexandreia Troas was founded — or more precisely, synoikized from several smaller settlements including Antigoneia — by Antigonus I Monophthalmus around 306 BC, then refounded and renamed by Lysimachus following Antigonus's death at Ipsus in 301 BC. This coin falls squarely within that contested window, issued under a city whose very name and political allegiance were about to be erased and reassigned by the outcome of a single battle.
Bellinger's Troy series remains the essential reference for this coinage, with A28 representing one of the earlier civic bronzes produced before Lysimachus consolidated control over the Troad.