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Tetradrachm - Protokleides
| Issuer | Ilion (Troad) |
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| Year | 188 BC - 133 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ilion's civic coinage of this period was enabled almost entirely by the city's privileged relationship with Rome — a relationship built on the mutually convenient fiction that Romans were descended from Trojan refugees, making Ilion an ancestral homeland of the Republic. The city leveraged this status aggressively, securing tax exemptions and political cover that funded civic institutions, including the mint. The magistrate name Protokleides appearing on this issue places it within a sequence documented by Bellinger but not fully die-linked, leaving the precise chronology of individual magistrate tenures unresolved.