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Tetradrachm - Ariston
| Issuer | Abydos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 65 BC |
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| Weight | 16.05 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Artemis facing right, her hair elaborately bound and adorned with a laurel wreath, with the tip of a bow and quiver visible over her left shoulder. The portrait is rendered in the Hellenistic style with fine detail in the facial features and drapery. The field is plain and unlettered. The entire design is enclosed within a pronounced dotted border. |
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| Reverse lettering | ABYΔHNΩN ΑΡΙΣΤΩΝΟΣ |
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Abydos, the strategically vital Hellespontine city controlling the narrowest crossing between Europe and Asia, struck civic tetradrachms under magistrate names during the final century of its independence before Roman provincial reorganization absorbed the region. The name Ariston appears as a magistrate identifier on this type, placing it within a series scholars have associated with the city's last decades of meaningful autonomous coinage. By 65 BC, Bithynia and the surrounding Propontic zone were firmly under Roman administration following the conclusion of the Third Mithridatic War.