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Tetradrachm - Demetrios, son of Hermokrates
| Issuer | Ilion (Troad) |
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| Year | 185 BC - 50 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Athena Ilias standing right, draped in a long chiton, holding a distaff in her extended right hand and a filleted spear in her left; two monograms appear in the inner left field and a kithara in the inner right field. The ethnic and magistrate legends are arranged in the field, identifying the issuing city and the responsible official. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Ilion — the city built atop the ruins of Troy — leveraged its mythological prestige aggressively in the Hellenistic period, positioning itself as a pilgrimage destination and extracting political capital from the Trojan legend at every opportunity. The Attic-weight tetradrachms issued by the city's magistrates belong to a civic coinage tied directly to the sanctuary of Athena Ilias, whose festival drew visitors and, more importantly, revenue from across the Greek world.
The magistrate name Demetrios son of Hermokrates is known from the epigraphic record at Ilion. The Bellinger and BMC references being unassigned here suggests this specific die pairing remains outside the catalogued sequence — worth noting for anyone pursuing die-study work on the Ilian series.