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Chalkon
| Issuer | Gambrion |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in archaic Greek style with bold, summary features characteristic of small bronze coinage from the region of Mysia. The hair is rendered with simple laurel wreath detail, and the portrait occupies the majority of the flan. The surface shows typical patination associated with hammered bronzes of the fourth century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Gambrion was a minor Mysian city whose precise location remains debated — most scholars place it near the Caicus River valley, though no ancient site has been definitively identified. The city struck bronze coinage only briefly, and the two SNG Copenhagen specimens representing this type suggest a very limited surviving corpus. For a settlement of such marginal political weight, the decision to strike civic bronze at all implies a moment of local autonomy, likely during the fragmented conditions of Achaemenid provincial administration in western Asia Minor.