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Tetradrachm - Apemantos
| Issuer | Ilion (Troad) |
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| Year | 185 BC - 133 BC |
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| Weight | 17.00 g |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena Ilias facing right, depicted in fine Hellenistic style. The goddess wears a laureate Attic helmet distinguished by a prominent triple crest, rendered with careful detail in the hair and facial features. The portrait is executed in high relief typical of Hellenistic civic coinage of the Troad region. |
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| Reverse lettering | AΘHNAΣ IΛIAΔOΣ AΠHMANTOY |
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Ilion's civic coinage of this period was politically charged in ways most Greek silver is not. The city leveraged its identity as the site of ancient Troy to cultivate favor with Rome — itself fond of the Trojan founding myth — and this diplomatic positioning helped secure Roman protection well before the Attalid bequest transferred the region in 133 BC. The magistrate name Apemantos appears in Bellinger's die study as one of several sequential issues confirming the series ran continuously through this window, not in isolated bursts.