Tetradrachm - Antiphanes

Ilion's claim to be the direct successor city of ancient Troy was not mere civic pride — it was a political instrument. The city cultivated its Trojan identity aggressively throughout the Hellenistic period, leveraging mythological prestige to secure privileges from Seleucid rulers and later from Rome, which famously acknowledged the Julian gens's supposed Trojan ancestry. This coin type, attributed to the magistrate Antiphanes, belongs to a civic silver series Ilion produced as the city navigated that long transition from Seleucid to Roman oversight.

The Bellinger classification places this type firmly within the civic coinage sequence rather than the earlier royal issues, a distinction that narrows its probable production window considerably within the broad 185–50 BC range.