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Tetradrachm - Diopeithes Zenidos
| Issuer | Ilion (Troad) |
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| Year | 95 BC - 87 BC |
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| Diameter | 31 mm |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, wearing a Attic-style crested helmet adorned with a large decorative plume or griffin crest. The goddess is depicted with fine facial features in the Hellenistic style, with curling locks of hair emerging beneath the helmet rim. The broad, slightly irregular flan typical of late Hellenistic civic coinage of the Troad frames the effigy, with the field showing characteristic die wear. No legend appears on the obverse, the entire composition being devoted to the divine portrait. |
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| Mintage | ND (95 BC - 87 BC) |
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Ilion — ancient Troy — leveraged its mythological prestige aggressively in the Hellenistic period, positioning itself as a cultural and religious center for communities claiming Trojan descent, including Rome. The magistrate name Diopeithes son of Zenides places this tetradrachm within a late civic series struck in the final decade before Sulla's forces ravaged the Troad during the First Mithridatic War, a campaign that effectively ended autonomous civic coinage across much of western Asia Minor.
The Bellinger reference gap is a known cataloguing issue for the later Iliadic civic series, with several magistrate combinations remaining unattributed or poorly documented in the standard corpus.