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Tetradrachm - Melanippides
| Issuer | Ilion (Troad) |
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| Year | 133 BC - 119 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse lettering | AΘHNAΣ IΛIAΔOΣ ΜΕΛΑΝΙΠΠΙΔΟΥ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Ilion — the city built atop the ruins of Troy — leveraged its mythological prestige aggressively in the Hellenistic period, and this tetradrachm is part of that project. The magistrate name Melanippides places this issue within a civic coinage series Ilion produced after coming under Pergamene and later Roman influence, during which the city cultivated its Homeric identity to attract patronage and maintain relevance as a pilgrimage site rather than a commercial center.
Bellinger's classification of this type took decades to settle; early scholarship conflated several Troadic civic issues before the Troy series monograph established the die sequences that underpin the T81 attribution.