Tetradrachm - Menephron Menephronos

Ilion — the city built atop the ruins of ancient Troy — leveraged its mythological geography aggressively during the Hellenistic period, positioning itself as a pilgrimage site and diplomatic asset long after it had ceased to matter militarily. This tetradrachm was struck under the magistracy of Menephron son of Menephron, a naming convention that suggests a prominent local family recycling the same name across generations, a common enough practice in Asia Minor civic life. The Bellinger Troy series documents these civic issues with unusual precision, allowing individual magistrate sequences to be dated against Attic weight standards and league activity in the Troad.