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Æ9
| Issuer | Gargara |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in archaic Greek style with flowing hair indicated by incised strands. The portrait occupies the full flan, with the face in profile displaying characteristic 4th-century BC Hellenistic artistic conventions. The surface exhibits typical bronze patination consistent with ancient circulation wear. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Gargara was a minor Troad city with a complicated existence — reportedly refounded or repopulated by Antigonos I using settlers forcibly relocated from surrounding communities, a common Hellenistic administrative practice that disrupted local civic identity. Whether this piece predates that reorganization or reflects the earlier independent polis is difficult to determine without clearer die linkage to dated issues.
The SNG Copenhagen variance notation suggests this specimen diverges from the six referenced examples, worth investigating against known die studies of Troadean bronze coinage.