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Tetradrachm - Demetrios
| 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 ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Abydos, the strategically critical Hellespontine city controlling the narrowest crossing between Europe and Asia, issued this tetradrachm under the autonomous civic coinage that proliferated across western Asia Minor during Rome's consolidating grip on the region. The Demetrios type reflects a broader pattern of cistophoric-era civic issues minted by cities asserting — or performing — local identity while navigating Pontic and then Roman suzerainty.
CN type 3236 places this firmly within the stephanophoric tetradrachm tradition common to the region in the late second and early first centuries BC.