Tetradrachm - Archagoros

Alexandreia Troas issued this tetradrachm under the magistrate Archagoros during the city's long autonomous coinage period, which ran through the turbulent final decades before Pompey's reorganization of the eastern provinces in 64 BC. These civic issues, struck to the reduced Attic standard that had become conventional across much of Asia Minor by the late second century, funded a city that still enjoyed nominal independence even as Rome's grip on the region tightened after the bequest of Pergamon in 133 BC. Bellinger's Troy series remains the definitive reference, catalogued during his 1961 study of the Troas mint sequence.