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Tetradrachm - Anaxagoras
| Issuer | Abydos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 65 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ABYΔHNΩN ΑΝΑΞΑΓΟΡΟΥ |
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Abydos, positioned at the narrowest point of the Hellespont, retained enough commercial importance under Seleucid and later Pergamene influence to sustain a local silver coinage well into the first century BC — unusual for a city whose political autonomy had been effectively curtailed for generations. The magistrate name Anaxagoras appears on a small cluster of dies within this series, placing this piece within a very compressed administrative moment.
By the time this coin was struck, Mithridates VI was tightening his grip on the Pontic coastline. Abydos would fall under siege in 74 BC.