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Stater
| Issuer | Abydos |
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| Year | 330 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (-330) |
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Abydos held a strategic chokepoint on the Hellespont, and its coinage reflects the city's perpetual entanglement with whoever controlled the straits. By 330 BC, the region had passed through Persian satrapal administration and was absorbing the political shockwaves of Alexander's eastward campaign. Civic gold issues from Abydos at this date are rare precisely because large-denomination gold struck by minor Asia Minor cities was quickly absorbed into the Macedonian war economy — melted or spent before accumulating.
The CN type#21850 classification places this among a small cluster of Abydene staters struck in the transitional decade when local civic authority persisted only briefly before Macedonian administrative consolidation suppressed independent municipal coinage.