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AE9
| Issuer | Skepsis |
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| Year | 400 BC - 310 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a horse prancing to the right, rendered in low relief with characteristic archaic stylization. A small rectangular object, possibly a grain symbol or city badge, is visible beneath the horse in the lower field. The flan is irregular and the surfaces display the patination typical of early Troadean bronze coinage. |
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| Mint | Skepsis, Troad |
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Skepsis was a minor Troad city whose autonomous bronze coinage was produced during a window bracketed by Persian suzerainty on one end and the Macedonian reorganization of the region on the other — Antigonus forcibly synoikized Skepsis into the newly founded Antigoneia around 310 BC, effectively ending the city's independent mint. The citizens were later refounded at their original site when Lysimachus dissolved Antigoneia, but by then autonomous bronze of this type had long ceased.