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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Parion |
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| Year | 165 BC - 143 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΠΟΛΩΝΟΣ ΑΚΤΑΙΟΥ ΠΑΡΙΑΝΩΝ ΔΙ ΤΕΥ |
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| Mint | Parion (Mysia) |
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Parion, a Greek colony on the southern shore of the Propontis, struck these tetradrachms under the weight standard and iconographic conventions of the Lysimachian series — a posthumous tradition that had spread across Asia Minor and Thrace long after Lysimachus himself died at Corupedium in 281 BC. Cities adopted the type partly for its commercial credibility; Lysimachian silver was trusted currency across Aegean trade networks, and minting under that umbrella gave a smaller civic issuer immediate transactional legitimacy in regional markets.
The dating of this issue places it squarely within the period of Attalid dominance over the Propontine coast following Rome's reorganization of Asia Minor after Apamea in 188 BC.