Æ10

Features

Issuer Achaion (Troas)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 400 BC - 300 BC
Currency Drachm
Composition Bronze
Weight 1.01 g
Diameter 10.0 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
169901
References SNG Copenhagen# 64
Niels Breitenstein, Willy Schwabacher; 1942. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum / Volume 1. Italy, Part 1 : Etruria - Campania. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark.
And 43 more volumes.

Obverse

Crested helmet left

Reverse

Civic monogram

Script: Greek

Lettering: Α

Mint

Achaeum, Troas, Turkey

Comments

See A. Ellis-Evans, “The Coinage and History of Achaiion in the Troad” in REA 119 (2017), for a comprehensive reassessment of the attribution of this coin, which had previously been attributed to Achilleion. Ellis-Evans’s multidisciplinary approach, strongly supported by recent archaeological evidence, persuasively argues that Herodotos’ identification of Achilleion as a polis was incorrectly interpreted by later authors; in fact, the site was little more than a fort used by Mytilene to challenge the Athenians at Sigeion, and was only occupied periodically. Also, in contrast to earlier scholars’ views that Achaiion was under constant domination by Tenedos, thus preventing an issue of coinage by the city, Ellis-Evans shows that the history of Achaiion mirrors that of other settlements in the Troad that were able to produce coinage on occasions when the power of Tenedos was diminished when it was challenged by its rivals in the region.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (400 BC - 300 BC) 

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