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Tetradrachm - Herodes
| Issuer | Abydos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 65 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Artemis facing right, her hair elaborately coiled and pinned, adorned with a stephane; a bow and quiver of arrows are visible over her left shoulder, rendered in fine Hellenistic style. The portrait is executed with naturalistic detail typical of late second to early first century BC Troadean coinage. The field is plain, and the coin is bordered by a neat ring of beads. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Abydos, the Egyptian cult center on the west bank of the Nile near ancient Thinis, maintained a degree of local monetary production under Ptolemaic administration during the late second and early first centuries BC — a period when the dynasty's grip on Upper Egypt was repeatedly disrupted by native revolts and internal succession crises. Coins attributed to this locale from the period remain poorly understood, and the "Herodes" attribution in modern typologies likely reflects a magistrate name rather than a dynastic connection.
CN type 3238 sits in a category where provenance documentation is thin and die-linkage studies incomplete.