Tetradrachm - Herodes

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.