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Tetradrachm - Leonippos
| Issuer | Abydos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 65 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ABYΔHNΩN ΛΕΩΝΙΠΠΟΥ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Abydos, the Hellespontine city that controlled one of the most strategically vital straits in the ancient world, issued civic coinage under magistrate names during the late Republican period — a time when the region was navigating the turbulent aftermath of the First Mithridatic War and the slow consolidation of Roman provincial authority over Asia Minor. Leonippos appears as the responsible magistrate on this type, one of several named officials attested in the BMC series for this issue.
The city's mint output from this period is relatively sparse, reflecting either interrupted production or a community of modest size operating under external political pressure.