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Tetradrachm - Athenaios
| Issuer | Abydos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 65 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse lettering | ABYΔHNΩN ΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΥ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Abydos, positioned at the narrowest point of the Hellespont, derived considerable wealth from toll revenues on Black Sea shipping traffic — a geographic advantage that funded civic coinage well into the late Hellenistic period. By the time this tetradrachm was struck, the city was operating under the shadow of Pontic and later Roman hegemony, minting with a magistrate name rather than a royal authority precisely because no single power had yet fully absorbed its civic institutions. The name Athenaios appears among a known sequence of magistrate-signed issues from this period.