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Tetradrachm - Apollophanes
| Issuer | Abydos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 65 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Abydos, strategically positioned at the narrowest point of the Hellespont, retained enough civic autonomy during the late Hellenistic period to strike civic coinage in its own name despite falling under Roman provincial influence following the reorganization of Asia Minor after 133 BC. The magistrate name Apollophanes appearing on this issue places it within a documented sequence of civic officials whose tenures helped numismatists establish the relative chronology of Abydene coinage in this compressed final window of local silver production.
The SNG Lewis corpus remains one of the primary references for anchoring these late Hellenistic civic issues, many of which survive in small numbers across a handful of European collections.