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Drachm
| Issuer | Sigeion |
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| Year | 375 BC - 325 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Athena, turned slightly to the right, rendered in the archaic to early classical style. The goddess wears a triple-crested Attic helmet, disc earrings, and a beaded necklace, all executed with fine detail characteristic of Troad regional coinage. The portrait displays the frontal or three-quarter facing convention closely inspired by Athenian Wappenmünzen prototypes. The field is plain, with the design occupying the full flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sigeion occupied a strategically critical position at the entrance to the Hellespont, and control of the city was contested repeatedly between Athens and Mytilene across the sixth and fifth centuries. By the time these drachms were struck, the city had passed through Athenian cleruchic settlement and Persian suzerainty alike. Its coinage is rare enough that die linkage studies across surviving specimens remain incomplete, and individual examples continue to surface that complicate existing typological sequences.