Tetradrachm - Demetrios

Features

Issuer	Ilion (Troad)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	188 BC - 133 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	16.55 g
Diameter	33 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 464062
References	Bellinger Troy# – Alfred Raymond Bellinger; 1961. Troy, The Coins. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, United States. , BMC Greek# – British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes).

Obverse

Head of Athena to right, wearing crested and laureate Attic helmet.

Reverse

Athena Ilias standing to right, holding distaff and filleted spear; radiate head of Helios to right, monogram to left, ΔHMHTPIOY in exergue.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
AΘHNAΣ
IΛIAΔOΣ
ΔHMHTPIOY

Mint

Ilium, Troas, Turkey

Comments

Bellinger -; A. Bellinger, The First Civic Tetradrachms of Ilium, MN VIII 1958 -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -, apparently unpublished.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (188 BC - 133 BC)

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