Tetradrachm - Euboulides

Ilion — the city built atop the ruins of Troy — leveraged its mythological identity aggressively in the Hellenistic period, and this tetradrachm is a direct product of that civic strategy. The magistrate name Euboulides appears on issues catalogued by Bellinger as part of a civic coinage series that ran well into the first century BC, long after most Aegean mints had submitted to Roman monetary reorganization. Ilion's survival as an issuing authority owed something to Roman sentiment: Julius Caesar and Augustus both claimed Trojan ancestry, and the city received tangible benefactions as a result.