Tetradrachm - Metriketes

Ilion leveraged its identity as the supposed site of ancient Troy aggressively throughout the Hellenistic period, and this civic coinage is a direct product of that political calculation. The city cultivated relationships with Rome — which had its own foundational mythology tied to Trojan ancestry through Aeneas — and Roman goodwill translated into tangible privileges, including the right to strike silver at a meaningful weight standard. The Metriketes type, catalogued by Bellinger under both his Troy and Civic series, spans a production window of well over a century, suggesting sustained institutional continuity in the city's mint operation rather than a single commemorative issue.