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Tetradrachm - Dionysodoros
| Issuer | Ilion (Troad) |
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| Year | 185 BC - 50 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Ilion (Troy) |
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Ilion — the city built on or near the ruins of Troy — leveraged its mythological identity aggressively in the Hellenistic period, and this tetradrachm is a product of that civic strategy. The magistrate name Dionysodoros appears on issues catalogued by Bellinger as part of the long civic coinage sequence that ran for well over a century, during which Ilion positioned itself as a pilgrimage destination and cultural touchstone for Greco-Roman elites, eventually attracting the personal favor of Julius Caesar, who claimed Trojan descent through Aeneas.
Bellinger's Troy T42 places this issue within a tightly sequenced die study. The civic series is notable for remarkably consistent fabric across a long production span.