Hemidrachm

Gergis was a minor settlement in the Troad, the region of northwestern Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy, and its coinage is among the most localized of any Greek civic mint — produced in small quantities for a community that barely registers in the literary sources. The type is closely associated with the Sibyl Herophile, said in ancient tradition to have been born at Gergis, which gave the town an outsized religious significance relative to its political weight.

Specimens turn up almost exclusively in a handful of institutional collections, the Boston MFA and Fitzwilliam among them.