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Tetradrachm - Kallistratos
| Issuer | Abydos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 65 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Artemis facing right, wearing a stephane and a quiver over her shoulder, her hair arranged in an elaborate coiffure with a laurel wreath. The figure is rendered in the Hellenistic style with fine detailing on the drapery and facial features. A dotted border encircles the entire design field. |
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| Reverse description | Eagle standing left on a thunderbolt, head turned back to the right, with wings partially spread; to the right, a bucranium (ox skull) surmounted by a caduceus. The civic ethnic ABYΔHNΩN appears to the left of the eagle, and the magistrate's name ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΡΑΤΟΥ is inscribed along the lower field. The entire design is surrounded by an olive wreath border. |
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Abydos, positioned at the narrowest crossing of the Hellespont, derived its economic power largely from tolls levied on Black Sea grain traffic — a revenue stream that funded civic coinage well into the first century BC. By the time this issue was struck, the city was operating under the shadow of Mithridatic expansion, and local magistrate coinage of this kind served partly to assert municipal continuity against that pressure. Kallistratos appears as a magistrate name on several Abydene issues, suggesting either a prominent family with sustained civic influence or a term of office that extended across multiple emission phases.