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Drachm - Tithonos
| Issuer | Dardanos (Troad) |
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| Year | 375 BC - 325 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered, Incuse |
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| Reverse description | Within a shallow incuse square, a cock stands in profile to the right, rendered with careful attention to plumage detail including a prominent comb and tail feathers. To the right of the cock stands an upright spear-head. The Greek bilinear legend ΔΑΡ above and ΤΙΘΩΝΟΣ to the right identifies both the issuing city of Dardanos and the dynast or magistrate Tithonos responsible for the issue. |
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| Mintage | ND (375 BC - 325 BC) |
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Dardanos was a minor coastal polis in the Troad, strategically positioned near the Hellespont, and its coin output was modest enough that most types survive in only a handful of specimens. The city's mythological founder Tithonos — the mortal granted immortality but not eternal youth by Eos — was an unusual civic choice for coinage, reflecting a local tradition that tied Dardanos directly to the Trojan cycle rather than to the more common Olympian pantheon favored by neighboring mints.
CN type 4181 remains poorly represented in major collections, and auction appearances are infrequent enough that die linkage studies across the series are still incomplete.